Holy Hell...
Mar. 24th, 2005 04:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
benchiladaAs you probably know, I work in the bookstacks of the University of Illinois library. At 10 million books, we fluctuate between being the 5th and the 6th largest library in the United States.
I get to find weirdass books.
Observe:
The Peep of Day; or, a Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind is Capable of Receiving; with Verses Illustrative of the Subject
Not too odd, right?
Yeah, it starts gently. But bear with it, ‘cause...just...damn...
“God does every thing. God gave you this little body, and he maes it live and move and breathe. There are bones in your body. God has made them strong and hard. There are some bones for your arms, and some bones for your legs. There is a bone for your back, and more bones for your sides.
God has covered your bones with flesh. Your flesh is soft and warm.
In your flesh, there is blood. God has put skin outside, and it covers your flesh and blood like a coat
Now, all these things, the bones and flesh and blood and skin, are called your body. How kind it was in God to give you a body. I hope that your body will not get hurt”
Ed.- Okay, that was an odd sentence. But let’s press on.
“Will your bones break? Yes, they would, if you were to fall down from a high place, or if a cart were to go over them.
If you were to be very sick, your flesh would waste away, and you would have scarcely any thing left but skin and bones.
Did you ever see a child who has been sick a very long while? I have seen a sick babe. It had not round cheeks like yours, and a fat arm like yours. Its flesh was almost gone, and its little bones were only covered with skin. God has kept you strong and well.
How easy it would be to hurt your little body.”
Ed. - Dude, that’s, uh...that’s skirting some sort of line, I think…
“If it were to fall into the fire, it would be burned up. If hot water were to fall upon it, it would be scalded. If it were to fall into deep water, and not be taken out very soon, it would be drowned.”
Ed. - ...
“If a great knife were to run through your body, the blood would come out. If a great box were to fall on your head, your head would be crushed. If you were to fall out of the window, your neck would be broken. If you were not to eat any food for a few days, your little body would be very sick, your breath would stop, and you would grow cold, and you would soon be dead.”
“You see that you have a very weak little body.”
Ed. - *sob*
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So remember kids: God made you fragile, so be nice, or somebody will run “a great knife...through your body.”
benjamin sTone
Cold on the inside
I get to find weirdass books.
Observe:
The Peep of Day; or, a Series of the Earliest Religious Instruction the Infant Mind is Capable of Receiving; with Verses Illustrative of the Subject
Not too odd, right?
Yeah, it starts gently. But bear with it, ‘cause...just...damn...
“God does every thing. God gave you this little body, and he maes it live and move and breathe. There are bones in your body. God has made them strong and hard. There are some bones for your arms, and some bones for your legs. There is a bone for your back, and more bones for your sides.
God has covered your bones with flesh. Your flesh is soft and warm.
In your flesh, there is blood. God has put skin outside, and it covers your flesh and blood like a coat
Now, all these things, the bones and flesh and blood and skin, are called your body. How kind it was in God to give you a body. I hope that your body will not get hurt”
Ed.- Okay, that was an odd sentence. But let’s press on.
“Will your bones break? Yes, they would, if you were to fall down from a high place, or if a cart were to go over them.
If you were to be very sick, your flesh would waste away, and you would have scarcely any thing left but skin and bones.
Did you ever see a child who has been sick a very long while? I have seen a sick babe. It had not round cheeks like yours, and a fat arm like yours. Its flesh was almost gone, and its little bones were only covered with skin. God has kept you strong and well.
How easy it would be to hurt your little body.”
Ed. - Dude, that’s, uh...that’s skirting some sort of line, I think…
“If it were to fall into the fire, it would be burned up. If hot water were to fall upon it, it would be scalded. If it were to fall into deep water, and not be taken out very soon, it would be drowned.”
Ed. - ...
“If a great knife were to run through your body, the blood would come out. If a great box were to fall on your head, your head would be crushed. If you were to fall out of the window, your neck would be broken. If you were not to eat any food for a few days, your little body would be very sick, your breath would stop, and you would grow cold, and you would soon be dead.”
“You see that you have a very weak little body.”
Ed. - *sob*
---
So remember kids: God made you fragile, so be nice, or somebody will run “a great knife...through your body.”
benjamin sTone
Cold on the inside
