Posted on 03/28/2024 12:30:14 PM PDT by dynachrome
Harvard University has removed the binding of human skin from a 19th Century book kept in its library.
Des Destinées de l'Ame (Destinies of the Soul) has been housed at Houghton Library since the 1930s.
In 2014, scientists determined that the material it was bound with was in fact human skin.
But the university has now announced it has removed the binding "due to the ethically fraught nature of the book's origins and subsequent history".
Des Destinées de l'Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s.
He is said to have given it to his friend, Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
H/T Bruce Campbell (Aka Ash) on X)
“binding of human skin”
Now that’s just creepy
Sounds like something the “Spirit Cooking” crowd would approve of.
Skin magazines were quite popular up until the dawn of the internet...
Klaatu barada necktie.
“Klaatu barada *cough cough cough*”
“Des Destinées de l’Ame is a meditation on the soul and life after death, written by Arsène Houssaye in the mid-1880s.”
No thanks, I’ll stick with my book.....written 2,000 years ago.
That’s just a token move. To get real, Harvard will have to remove their “work houses” for Jews located beneath their Law School. It’s only a joke...for now...but never underestimate the depravity of the left. They ARE the ones accusing others of being Nazis...and you know what that really indicates.
“Dr Ludovic Bouland, a doctor, who then reportedly bound the book with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes”
Of course he did.....what else would you do with skin from the body of an unclaimed female patient who had died of natural causes. 🤷
Necronomicon ex Mortis.
Klaatu Barada Nikto…
How many lampshades made from Holocaust victims do they still have?
There’s a reason he won an academy award for that role.
Now will they get rid of the lampshades?..................
Meanwhile, in their biological labs one wonders what they are doing with aborted human fetal remains...
“We destroyed a historical artifact to demonstrate compliance with a woke religious belief currently in fashion.”
— Harvard
Necronomnomnom
A Lovecraft-inspired cookbook with recipes to whet your appetite and threaten your sanity
Reading about the slime- covered, non- Euclidean ruins of the sunken city of R’lyeh or the squamous, tentacled deity who slumbers there would make anyone hungry. Starting with the puns and working from there, authors Mike Slater and Thomas Roache have summoned forth 50 funny, bizarre, and horrible dishes such as:
• The Deep Fried Deep One
• Nog Sothoth
• Cthus-Koos
• The Great Old Buns
• The Gin and Miskatonic
You can buy this stuff still.
Of interest?
Did they burn the book after skinning it?
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