Comments on: One person’s rubbish is another person’s… http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/03/01/one-persons-rubbish-is-another-persons/ Hobbily blogging Sun, 21 Mar 2010 00:25:03 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: george http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/03/01/one-persons-rubbish-is-another-persons/comment-page-1/#comment-194 george Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:01:21 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/03/01/one-persons-rubbish-is-another-persons/#comment-194 where is this exactly? (i'm addicted to books :D ) thanks. where is this exactly? (i’m addicted to books :D )

thanks.

]]> By: Simon http://www.joelnothman.com/2007/03/01/one-persons-rubbish-is-another-persons/comment-page-1/#comment-148 Simon Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:56:55 +0000 http://joelnothman.com/2007/03/01/one-persons-rubbish-is-another-persons/#comment-148 Seems a terrible waste to be throwing some of those books in the garbage... I'm all for the idea of a geniza. The text doesn't even have to have a divine name in it to qualify: anything that might possibly strike future generations as being quaint or stylised should get locked in an attic somewhere for somebody to discover and write their (future equivalent of a) doctoral dissertation on. If the inhabitants of Qumran had any idea of the stir that they were going to cause, you can bet your life they would have stashed some fabulous stuff away up there. If I were you, I'd stick the book on urinary tract infections, along with the catechisms, under a loose plank beneath your bed. Let some future explorer reconstruct dominant 21st century religion on the basis of that! Seems a terrible waste to be throwing some of those books in the garbage… I’m all for the idea of a geniza. The text doesn’t even have to have a divine name in it to qualify: anything that might possibly strike future generations as being quaint or stylised should get locked in an attic somewhere for somebody to discover and write their (future equivalent of a) doctoral dissertation on. If the inhabitants of Qumran had any idea of the stir that they were going to cause, you can bet your life they would have stashed some fabulous stuff away up there.

If I were you, I’d stick the book on urinary tract infections, along with the catechisms, under a loose plank beneath your bed. Let some future explorer reconstruct dominant 21st century religion on the basis of that!

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