Books Bound in Human Skin

Colleges & Universities Brown University
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<p>bizzarre story through the AP newswire about centuries-old books in Brown’s John Hay Library that are bound with leather made from human skin</p>

<p><a href=“http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-humandog_15nat.ART0.State.Edition1.3ed30b9.html[/url]”>http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-humandog_15nat.ART0.State.Edition1.3ed30b9.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>(slow day)</p>

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<p>I get sick just hearing about it.</p>

<p>If I was reading a textbook, and someone suddenly verified that the textbook was bound in human skin, I would be scarred for life. Ugh, and to think, I once thought of living the life of an anthropologist.</p>

<p>I can’t even touch ancient human bones/watch someone touch them as objects.</p>

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<p>that’s just creepy</p>

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<p>I went to Brown for a summer program. My RA told me about the book. She also said that each library has its own special quality. One of them has the largest toy soldier collection, either in the world, or in the US.</p>

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<p>I was at Brown two summers ago and my professor took us to the John D Hay library for a tour. We got to see the book… it’s not that different from many books… it’s just the thought of the human skin binding that scares people.</p>

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<p>…thats kinda freaky.</p>

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<p>I think there’s also one in the John Carter Brown library, right next to my dorm. Eep!</p>

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<p>picture of the books in today’s herald
<a href=“http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2006/01/31/Focus/In.A-Literal.Bind-1545400.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com[/url]”>http://www.browndailyherald.com/media/paper472/news/2006/01/31/Focus/In.A-Literal.Bind-1545400.shtml?norewrite&sourcedomain=www.browndailyherald.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Effulgent, you may like this. </p>

<p>When my son (who is a science freak) was about 6 he saw a skeleton at school (he loved it) and asked me, “Where’d they get the skeleton; did they just go to a graveyard & dig it up?” I told him that the person “probably decided to give his body to science.” He said, “How could he do that if he was dead?” So I explained about living wills, etc. After thinking it over for a while, he said, very politely-- “Mom, when you die could I please have your skeleton?”</p>