[New-Poetry] kindly thought about bad books

[Halvard Johnson]

Meant to say "It's much to be preferred that
people believe ALL books are sacred than to
believe ONE book is sacred," but then you
knew that, didn't you?

Hal

Not responsible for typographical terrors.

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On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:47 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:

> It's much to be preferred that people believe ALL books
> all sacred than to believe ONE book is sacred.
>
> Hal, the unreasoning
>
> "If there is anyone here I have not
>  offended, I apologize."
>                    --Johannes Brahms
>
> Halvard Johnson
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> On Mar 7, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Elaine Brown wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>
>>
>> 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. “Rasputin and  
>>> the Alphabet.” The Tin Drum, bk. 1. tr. R. Manheim. 1961.
>>>
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