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David Roberts's avatar

Sometimes I'll see an old stain on a page from eating chocolate or peanut butter and it will make me happy, because snacking while reading is the best!

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Duane Toops's avatar

Books are sacred objects. High Holy art. Not like frescoes, or leaded windows. Not like relics or artifacts. They can't be venerated when cordoned off or underglass. Books are like prayer beads, like rosaries. Like malas, like guitars. They are made sacred by their scrapes and scratches. By their distress. By their abrasions. By their wear. "You shall know them by their fruits," comes to mind. Not something to be worshipped but the act of our worshipping. Books, like the holiest of all objects are venerated through their use.

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