[New-Poetry] kindly thought about bad books

[Rsgwynn1 at cs.com]

In a message dated 3/7/2007 5:29:15 PM Central Standard Time, 
hawkbrwn at msn.com writes: 
> 
> Don’t get me wrong with this question.  I’m 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?  

I regard my annotated (usually in red or pink or blue ink) books as more than 
sacred.  I have no problem with "defiling" a teaching copy of a book and 
trust the authors would have no problem either.  What do you suppose Nabokov's 
edition of Kafka's stories looked like?!  I love my children too, but would not 
have had them persist and mature in the natural, Rousseauian state!   
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