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...in a conversation with Denis Diderot, the editor of the Encyclopédie and the Enlightenment’s most original and radical thinker. “While you write on unfeeling
by ourmandave 9y ago
...in a conversation with Denis Diderot, the editor of the Encyclopédie and the Enlightenment’s most original and radical thinker. “While you write on unfeeling paper,” she told the philosophe, “I write on human skin, which is sensitive to the slightest touch.”
Metaphorically then.
- Raphmedia 9y agoThere are however historical cases where books were bound using human leather. Edit: vague words
- baldfat 9y agoBy common you mean 18 books have been confirmed worldwide. > Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. As of April 2016, The Anthropodermic Book Project "has identified 47 alleged anthropodermic books in the world's libraries and museums. Of those, 30 books have been tested or are in the process of being tested. Seventeen of the books have been confirmed as having human skin bindings and nine were proven to be not of human origin but of sheep, pig, cow, or other animals."[1] (The confirmed figures as of May 2017 have increased to 18 bindings identified as human and 13 disproved. https://anthropodermicbooks.org/ https://anthropodermicbooks.org/