re: #136 SanFranciscoZionist

Pretty good. Staying on track with my new workout plan, so I’m pleased with me.

Book burning is appealing for a lot of reasons. It’s a spectacle. Nothing brings humans together like building a big fire and throwing stuff into it, as everyone from Og through the Nazis (and Terry Jones), has discovered.

It’s also symbolically cleansing, both of the evils in the books, and of the people who sacrifice their own impure texts and such. Botticelli threw his own canvases on Savonarola’s fires. People bring their Rick Warren books and their Amy Grant tapes to things like this book-burning in Kentucky, and feel cleansed.

And if you gave it to Goodwill, someone else might read this filth, so that’s not OK.

;)

In RC elementary school, I was taught that things were THINGS.

I like to make money on things, or at least know they were usefully recycled.