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Friday, January 27, 2012

Books Call Me Cottonelle

Posted by Paul Constant on Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 3:27 PM

If you have no weekend plans, may I suggest retyping the entirety of Moby Dick onto five or so rolls of toilet paper? Or, if you don't have a weekend to spare, you can just buy someone else's toilet-paper Moby Dick for two hundred bucks.

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up next: Typee.

Posted by scary tyler moore

on January 27, 2012 at 3:41 PM

The reserve has not been met yet, Paul. It's going to take more than $200.

Posted by aiff on January 27, 2012 at 3:52 PM

@1 Omoo you didn't.

Posted by gloomy gus on January 27, 2012 at 3:59 PM

I can think of better things to copy onto toilet paper. Things that would make wiping a transcendent experience.

Posted by Vince on January 27, 2012 at 4:02 PM

Who did this, Bartleby the scrivener?

Posted by seatackled on January 27, 2012 at 4:10 PM

"Returns not accepted."

Probably wise...

Posted by tabathalphabet on January 27, 2012 at 4:11 PM

I love the fact that he did this a decade ago, and has been keeping it in a box ever since, only pulling it out to show people who doubted his assertion that he'd done it. Imagine how lucky and honored those people must have felt!

@3, are you referring to Bartleby the Shittener?

Posted by Fnarf

on January 27, 2012 at 4:12 PM

That is amazing. I want it to decorate my walls like scrolls of Chinese poetry.

Posted by johnnycache on January 27, 2012 at 4:13 PM

I'm always comforted by stories of everyday heroes like this.

Posted by sikandro on January 27, 2012 at 4:18 PM

Witty witty peeps on here today (as on most days).

I would totally do this, but it's trumped by the possibility of counting the tumbleweeds deposited on the road in front of my house by the last windstorm.

Posted by rob!