{"id":65521,"date":"2019-07-19T02:04:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65521"},"modified":"2019-07-19T02:07:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T02:07:29","slug":"two-ourobouroi-and-some-somewhat-gruesome-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=65521","title":{"rendered":"Two Ourobouroi — and some somewhat gruesome books.."},"content":{"rendered":"

[ by Charles Cameron<\/strong> — this is one of those posts for those who take a quasi-perverse delight in the strangely, beautifully morbid — bibliophiles ahoy! ]
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Here’s another Ouroboros<\/strong>, this one from Microsoft’s eBook Apocalypse shows the dark side of DRM<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Amazon, overcome by a fit of irony in 2009, memorably vanished copies of George Orwell\u2019s 1984 from Kindles. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That was a decade ago, and happily some human at some point in the process had the good sense to intervene. Still, it really is a moment worth contemplating.<\/p>\n

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And here for your consideration is a second ouroboros<\/strong> in which a painting is made on the material depicted in it..<\/p>\n

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A flaying of the skin, as depicted on an ornately decorated piece of flayed skin.<\/p>\n

The martyrdom of Bartholomew the Apostle. Hungarian Anjou Legendary, ca. 1325-35. Morgan Library, MS M.360.21. pic.twitter.com\/y3kglPO19z<\/a><\/p>\n

— Yvonne Seale (@yvonneseale) July 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n