{"id":3692,"date":"2015-03-18T00:16:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3692"},"modified":"2015-03-18T00:16:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-18T07:16:24","slug":"fed-to-the-flames-at-sea-03182015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=3692","title":{"rendered":"Fed to the Flames \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [03\/18\/2015]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"book-burning\"<\/a>This is the ONLY book I\u2019ve ever read in my whole life and you are NOT putting it on that fire! ~ Pleasentville<\/em><\/p>\n

There\u2019s one aspect of the heightened health protocols that I have always managed to avoid: I will not destroy the contents of the book exchange. I\u2019ve always managed to tell myself that if I just lock the doors and don\u2019t let anyone handle them, they\u2019ll effectively be quarantined. I\u2019ve always just skimmed that\u2026and then one of my co-workers, probably with my best interest at heart \u2013 started bugging me about it this morning.<\/p>\n

But shouldn\u2019t you\u2026.?<\/em><\/p>\n

And she wouldn\u2019t let it go. She just wouldn\u2019t. And my brain suddenly just frizzled\u2026<\/p>\n

And I gave in\u2026<\/p>\n

And as I sat there, cross-legged on the floor, stacking batch after batch of tattered, new and everything-in-between paperbacks into a box and watching them be ferried down to the incinerator (I had my team-mate do it, since she was the one who insisted that it be done, and honestly because I couldn\u2019t bear to do it myself), I found that I knew what my Father must have felt like back when he worked at the warehouse. He used to come home joking about how many old text books he\u2019d had to feed to the shredder that day, and as a kid I used to be furious\u2026until Mum finally told me that every time he tore off a cover and threw a book into the shredder, he cried.<\/p>\n

Four boxes. Four boxes, overflowing, in every language from English to Dutch\u2026gone. Fed to the flames. My teammate, not being the bibliophile that I am, said casually as we were boxing up the last batch<\/p>\n

The guys down at the garbage room were tearing the pages out before I left\u2026 \u2018cause y\u2019know, makes it easier to burn.<\/em><\/p>\n

DON\u2019T TELL ME THAT!!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh..um\u2026sorry\u2026should I tell you they\u2019re kissing every page?<\/em><\/p>\n

No. Don\u2019t tell me that either. If I have to do this, its better I do it fast like taking off a band-aid.<\/em><\/p>\n

I feel like a killer\u2026I find myself guilty of libricide<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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