[New-Poetry] kindly thought about bad books

[Elaine Brown]

Don¹t get me wrong with this question.  I¹m a total bookophile.

But why should we regard books as sacred?  I mean, a thing just *being* a
book is enough to mean the thing is sacred?  This seems not obviously right
to me (which does not mean it is wrong).  Anyone have a well-argued reason?


On 3/7/07 9:06 AM, "JforJames at aol.com" <JforJames at aol.com> wrote:

> As bab blurbs have ebbed away, here's a thought to end that thread...
>  
> Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
> --(narrator Oskar Matzerath) Günther Grass. 1959. ³Rasputin and the Alphabet.²
> The Tin Drum, bk. 1. tr. R. Manheim. 1961.
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