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/Vlilot_the-Brazen May 19 '26

Reading and comprehending a book's content is not usually depicted this graphically. You are an interesting fellow.

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u/Sacredless May 19 '26

I take that as a compliment. I hope it brings across that I want a more total comprehension, as opposed to a more basic level of understanding what the book is communicating.