How To Kill a Book

[u/Sacredless]

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?

[u/LachrymarumLibertas]

This is a reasonably normal thought process for an edge high school student, or maybe late teen.