Thursday, October 18, 2007
Battle of the Books
Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania, Part VIII (The Uses of Books), V (Their Belligerent Usefulness), points to yet another example of Bible thumping, from a passage in Anthony Trollope's Autobiography about his father:
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In those days he never punished me, though I think I grieved him much by my idleness; but in passion he knew not what he did, and he has knocked me down with the great folio Bible which he always used.Andrew MacGillivray writes in an email:
I thought this might serve to complement your Bible-Thumping. Books can be body armour as well as blunt instrument. Smite thine enemy with the Old Testament; be saved by the New.
