You're making me want to read Mary Douglas on concepts of holiness again, now.
Oh yes, I'd heard that books aren't considered blessed in Catholicism somewhere. It came up during a discussion on people handing out religious tracts in the street, which are likely to end up in the bin.
Not surprised at the book-snarfing. ghost_of_a_flea is a blameless atheist, but we were having fun yesterday discussing the idea of being buried with all of one's books in a non-religious sense. He'd need an extended-family-sized plot to get all of his in. This is partly because he is incapable of resisting snapping up books whenever remotely appealing ones appear before him at a decent price, and bear in mind he works in a charity bookshop *and* gets a discount there.
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Date: Sunday, 3 June 2007 04:49 pm (UTC)From:Oh yes, I'd heard that books aren't considered blessed in Catholicism somewhere. It came up during a discussion on people handing out religious tracts in the street, which are likely to end up in the bin.
Not surprised at the book-snarfing.