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Harvard Confirms Antique Book is Bound in Human Skin
2014-06-08
[An Nahar] Harvard University
...home of the Best and the Brightest, contributed $878,164 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns?
scientists have confirmed that a 19th century French treatise in its libraries is bound in human skin, Harvard University said this week, after a bevvy of scientific testing.

Arsene Houssaye's "Des destinees de l'ame" (On the destiny of the soul) is part of the antique book collection of the university's Houghton Library, which specializes in rare and antique works.
Posted by:Fred

#5  Just about the only way I'm gonna get in a book.
Posted by: Skidmark   2014-06-08 21:05  

#4  Will the flounder's third volume extol
How well he squirmed into his role?
No matter how dishy,
It's sure to smell fishy,
And be bound in the skin of a soul.
Posted by: Zenobia Floger6220   2014-06-08 13:58  

#3  Image the response from 'you know who' if the book had been discovered in Rush's library.

But its OK, it's Harvard. They 'meant' well.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-06-08 09:41  

#2  "It puts the lotion on the book or it gets the hose again"
Posted by: Frank G   2014-06-08 08:08  

#1  Don't judge the book by its cover.
Posted by: gorb   2014-06-08 00:24  

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