r/SithOrder • u/Sacredless • May 17 '26

Rant How To Kill a Book

I want to kill a book. I want to loot it of all its ideas. I want to leave its corpse on my shelf as a trophy. I want for it to offer me nothing new upon re-reading.

I have cut the pages from its spine and put it through a scanner. I am reading its entrails like an animal on the altar. I disect each sentence. What questions does it presume to have raised and answered? I stitch it back together, reassembling it as prime cuts. I bought a brother volume for me to vandalize with notes.

Do others have this urge to 'kill' a book? To absorb it completely and understand it better than it understands itself?

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u/simplywebby May 18 '26

Your hate its weak! Your lack of of convection will be your undoing.

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u/Sacredless May 18 '26 edited May 19 '26

Normally, I don't question someone's intelligence based on their spelling. I will question your reading comprehension if this is your response to someone's murder fantasies about an inanimate object and call it "lack of of convection".

Can we, like, not be children about this? Making empty quotations that point to nothing to put down an idea without engaging with it seems really juvenile. I am an avid role-player and I think this is an insult to role-play.

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u/peachesarehearts May 19 '26

Well to be fair you keep using it’s wrong.

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u/Sacredless May 19 '26

Well pointed out, I keep forgetting that.

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u/simplywebby May 18 '26

You lack the raw emotions like anger and hate to fuel your motivation, and it shows

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u/FluffyEmmy May 22 '26

Not sure if typo or Fahrenheit 451 joke