Chapter Two wrote:Another was thrown out for tearing out the pages and eating them. Imagine a fourteenth century monk, painstakingly devoting a year of his life to create the minutely detailed pages of a book of hours; imagine those pages outlasting the reformation, the civil war, all the bloody history of the British Isles, and housed finally in a building designed to preserve these works for a thousand years. Now imagine a man walking into said building, using his right as a British citizen to handle these pages, taking them to a table, turning on the lamp, and committing those pages to finally end their days being digested in the guts and shat out of the arse of a mentally ill man.
Some of the rare books in Fordham's library had the engravings threaded out.
Some of the crimes against books I have seen could make a person weep.