[lit-ideas] Re: The Triumph of Sancho Panzer
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:44:27 -0700
On Jul 18, 2011, at 10:26 PM, Eric Yost wrote:
> Great literature in book form cannot be improved, can be reused for decades,
> and doesn’t contaminate with lithium or with any of the other computer-based
> metals whose effect on the water table we have yet to put to reckoning. Plus,
> and here a real-life gee-whiz account about a text I had edited, a good
> manual book, under proper circumstances, will stop a round from an AK-47.
> Sony Readers can make no such claim.
>
You edited the bible? I know I read somewhere that soldiers carried pocket
bibles in hope that these would stop bullets. Never came across anything like
this in the diaries I read in the Imperial War Museum, but then again neither
did I come across soldiers of the type that Paul Fussell described, ones
carrying the Oxford Book of English Poetry forward into battle.
If I were hoping for protection from bullets, I think I'd take a Kindle over a
paperback "Death in Venice." Could I perhaps gird myself around with a
complete edition of Britannica? Bought from and guaranteed by Sancho Panzer,
door-to-door sales?
David Ritchie,
Portland, Oregon
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