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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
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[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..)
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Thank you, tsuwm, I knew I could rely on you.
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"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?
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TEd, I really hope you made this up!
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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.
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If Jennifer Connolly is reading during sex, she's evidently never experienced a -gasm of any sort. I'm just saying.
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>>If Jennifer Connolly<<
Clearly, *you* have never laid eyes on a true bookworm.
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Maybe it's an instruction manual.
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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
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