My one (white) friend from Mississippi has been reading through the correspondence of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius with his former teacher, Fronto... He told me that every once in a while Fronto reminisces fondly about kissing his pupil.
"That was the times, man," he was like.
He also said that he immediately thought that that would be a great topic for a book, and then the next thing he knew in his research he came across a book that someone had written on that very topic (though I'm not sure if it's the one I just linked to, which is more an edited collection of those letters).
Also, I liked my idea of putting the books I'm getting rid of next to the library copies so in case anyone looking for the book on-shelf wants my copy, they can take it, so today I put these on shelf next to the library copies:
a) a shitty English translation of Augustine's "De Trinitate" (actually, not the translation I linked to, fyi).
b) Rudolf Bultmann's "New Testament & Mythology".
c) C.S. Lewis's "Mere Christianity".
I hope someone can use them!
Also, I hope the library doesn't catch me! I don't think they have a way of tracing this shit back to me, but still...
It's kind of funny, when you think about it - with library jobs I've held before and I've shelf-read to see if any books have been mis-shelved, I've never once come across a non-library book... I wonder what the future shelf-readers will think! Will they talk about it amongst themselves, and about who would have done this?
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