I am currently reading
Library by Matthew Battles. He uses the word 'biblioclasm', meaning a mass destruction of books, and says in the endnotes that he found this word in a work published in the year 2000 by somebody called Martin Kern and says:
... his work also introduced me to the very useful word word "biblioclasm" (which seems his own coinage).However, on googling biblioclasm, I found this:
"Biblioclasm," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as the deliberate destruction of books, a cultural offense of the first magnitude.http://www.nicholasbasbanes.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=18Could someone with an OED check the history of this word, please?
Bingley
[f. BIBLIO- + Gr. klasmos breaking.]
Destruction of books, or of the Bible. biblioclast (-klaist, -ĉ-) [Gr. klasths breaker], a destroyer of books, or of the Bible. Also biblioclastic a. (Little more than nonce-words.)
1864 T. GRIFFITH Plea Scripture 8 The Biblioclasm of the higher criticism. 1880 BLADES Enemies Bks. 96 Such a wicked old biblioclast as John Bagford. 1884 Athenĉum 7 June 724 Made bonfires of the Maya and Aztec manuscripts..May these bishops expiate their crimes in the purgatory of biblioclasts! 1887 Longman's Mag. Dec. 239 The biblioclastic dead.
(I hope I got the Gr. transletteration closer this time..)
Thank you, tsuwm, I knew I could rely on you.
Bingley
"Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Connelly says she likes to read during sex. Jennifer, 35, told Esquire magazine: 'I usually don't like to multi-task. I can't read a book and run on the treadmill; I don't like to be on the phone and play with the kids. But during sex, I like to read.'"
Could it have been bibliogasm?
TEd, I really hope you made this up!
Nope. Come on, E II, you know I don;t make up anything. Well, not often. Well, maybe sorta often. But not ALWAYS. And definitely not this time.
If Jennifer Connolly is reading during sex, she's evidently never experienced a -gasm of any sort. I'm just saying.
>>If Jennifer Connolly<<
Clearly, *you* have never laid eyes on a true bookworm.
Maybe it's an instruction manual.
Tristram Shandy complains that his parents were not paying sufficient attention at his begetting because:
Pray, my dear, quoth my mother, have
you not forgot to wind up the clock ? ----
Good G -- ! cried my father, making an
exclamation, but taking care to moderate
his voice at the same time, ---- Did ever
woman, since the creation of the world, in-
terrupt a man with such a silly question? http://www.tristramshandyweb.it/home.htmAfterthought: So perhaps Ms. Connolly's future children will blame their criminal tendencies on the fact that she was reading Agatha Christie rather than War and Peace at their begetting.Bingley
To read of such blase conjugal behavior by the comely Ms Connelly induces in me a deep feeling of dismay that I can only liken to the feeling a man would experience if, upon looking over a shiny red Ferrari, he were told it was equipped with a governor that limited its speed to 35 mph. Then again, driving a Ferrari even at 35 mph would be an experience not without some enjoyment.
Maybe it's an instruction manual.As in, put peg A into slot B ????
>>to read of such behavior<<
If you followed her example and read about it in bed you might find that...never mind.
Or a doggie training manual?
When Jackie gets here and reads all of this, you all are REALLY going to get it.
Well shoot, I'm just discussing sports cars...
TEd started it. TEd started it. A bad influence that man, I say.
Maybe it's an instruction manual.
As in, put peg A into slot B ????
Maybe Ms Connolly's partner needs a little brush-up on technique? (Maybe a private tutor?)