Des destinées de l’âme

[lsa]

So.... this is awkward.

"Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme (1880s), held at Houghton Library. The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially placed on deposit by John B. Stetson, Jr. (1884–1952), an American diplomat, businessman, and Harvard alumnus (AB 1906), and later through donation by his widow Ruby F. Stetson to Houghton Library in 1954. "

A statement on Des destinées de l’âme and its stewardship

Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme, held at Houghton Library.

library.harvard.edu

Who said libraries were boring?


1. I wanna know what @senri thinks

2. @Slobodan how many times did you borrow the book?

 

[Get To Da Choppa]

So.... this is awkward.

"Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme (1880s), held at Houghton Library. The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially placed on deposit by John B. Stetson, Jr. (1884–1952), an American diplomat, businessman, and Harvard alumnus (AB 1906), and later through donation by his widow Ruby F. Stetson to Houghton Library in 1954. "

A statement on Des destinées de l’âme and its stewardship

Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme, held at Houghton Library.

library.harvard.edu

Who said libraries were boring?


1. I wanna know what @senri thinks

2. @Slobodan how many times did you borrow the book?

 

[lsa]

@Kowboy On Sherdog I could eat

 

[jeff7b9]

Well, she didn't need it anymore...

 

[ripsta619]

What it taste like?

 

[Slobodan]

So.... this is awkward.

"Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme (1880s), held at Houghton Library. The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially placed on deposit by John B. Stetson, Jr. (1884–1952), an American diplomat, businessman, and Harvard alumnus (AB 1906), and later through donation by his widow Ruby F. Stetson to Houghton Library in 1954. "

A statement on Des destinées de l’âme and its stewardship

Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme, held at Houghton Library.

library.harvard.edu

Who said libraries were boring?


1. I wanna know what @senri thinks

2. @Slobodan how many times did you borrow the book?

I'm just shocked that you made a thread about a book of all things.

 

[Tone C]

What it taste like?

Sod that , what's it smell like....?

 

[Flower2dPeople]

Sod that , what's it smell like....?

Like a bag of sand.

 

[zapataxiv]

why do I feel like I need my boom stick and chain saw hand

 

[Jackonfire]

Cancel culture strikes again. Can't even bind books with human flesh because woke

 

[Kowboy On Sherdog]

Cancel culture strikes again. Can't even bind books with human flesh because woke

They taking everything Leatherface worked for mf

 

[William Huggins]

Defacing books and rewriting history..........

What next emancipation of Genghis Khan's concubines........

 

[Fedorgasm]

It's kind of stupid to remove it.

What's done is done. Put it in a museum and teach people how fucked up this guy was. It's history, all we can do is study it, talk about it, learn from it. But we can't undo it.

 

[DougieJones]

Are they going to give the skin back?


If not WTF is the point lol

 

[helax]

I have been calling @lsa Buffalo Bill for years. This thread comes as no surprise.

 

[lsa]

I have been calling @lsa Buffalo Bill for years. This thread comes as no surprise.

I did nothing!!


You cant prove that!

 

[helax]

I'm just shocked that you made a thread about a book of all things.

Only cuz it was made of skin

 

[senri]

So.... this is awkward.

"Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme (1880s), held at Houghton Library. The volume’s first owner, French physician and bibliophile Dr. Ludovic Bouland (1839–1933), bound the book with skin he took without consent from the body of a deceased female patient in a hospital where he worked. The book has been in the collections of Harvard Library since 1934, initially placed on deposit by John B. Stetson, Jr. (1884–1952), an American diplomat, businessman, and Harvard alumnus (AB 1906), and later through donation by his widow Ruby F. Stetson to Houghton Library in 1954. "

A statement on Des destinées de l’âme and its stewardship

Harvard Library has removed human skin from the binding of a copy of Arsène Houssaye’s book Des destinées de l’âme, held at Houghton Library.

library.harvard.edu

Who said libraries were boring?


1. I wanna know what @senri thinks

2. @Slobodan how many times did you borrow the book?

The man was creative, he needed to do with what was around him at the time....

 

[senri]

Only cuz it was made of skin

Always moisturize...

 

[Vayn Sword]