Thespian Talk – Episode 96 (The Most Fertile Man Ever)

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1. Gizensha says:

   March 26, 2014 at 19:19

   The human skin books are bound with leather made from human skin, iirc, so no more likely to decompose as your standard luxuary, leather bound, editions of books. And it wasn’t an entirely uncommon fate of executed people in the Victorian era, again iirc. Not always book for book binding, mind, I think there are some wallets made of executed thieves out there… Nooseman memorabelia was a thing, and things made from the skin of the executed people weren’t unheard of. I presume they exist due to that.

   …That’s the fact they give about Robinson Crusoe? Not the original title being “The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates.”?

   A quick check – Turns out Winnie the Pooh was banned in the UK because… It was thought it might offend Muslim students and their parents. Not because it actually caused an upset from Muslim students, it should be emphasised, and their parents, but because it was assumed it might by, presumably, non-Muslims misunderstanding Muslim religious laws. The ban was lifted when the Muslim Council of Britain formally requested an end to the ban, and other books banned for similar reasons – http://bannedbooks.world.edu/2011/06/19/banned-books-awareness-winniethepooh/

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