A used book seller in the States has started burning books in protest at the declining value of the written word. Tom Wayne had thousands of books in storage and tried to give them away to thrift stores or libraries but was told there was no room in the inn. So he burnt them. Well, he burnt some of them before the fire department forced him to stop because he didn't have a burning permit.
He told spectators "This is the funeral pyre for thought in America today".
All I can ask you is: on a scale of one to ten - how horrifying do you find this?
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Is there a technical term for burning books, like self-immolation? There should be. I just can't be bothered googling it. It's horrifying. I applaud his sentiment but I would have cried to see it. It makes me feel like throwing up.
apparently he wasn't above selling some of the books to people who wanted to save them.
It's just sad.
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