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Monday, April 10, 2006

Lost and Found

Posted by on April 10 at 15:07 PM

Classified appearing in yesterday’s Yorkshire Evening Post: “If anyone found my book bound in human skin, please return it to me. Great sentimental value.”

And you wonder if it was worth it to throw off the shackles of Mother England.


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Welcome to Slog, CMcCann!

Durr... the P-I's Capitol Correspondent?

"In the 18th and 19th Centuries it was common to bind accounts of murder trials in the killer's skin - known as anthropodermic bibliopegy."

Woah!

...and she puts the lotion in the basket...

...and she puts the lotion in the basket...

http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=23

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