Hurrah for fake bookjackets, continuing a long tradition. We've just taken delivery of two bucketloads of 1920s novels rebound to form a uniform shelf for display. It's only in the last century that bookbuyers stopped habitually binding their books for themselves, losing the habit of abbreviating the title on the spine. The tradition of fake books - like those you pull or push to cause the entire case to revolve and give access to your lair - included comedy titles where an imaginary treatise by Prof. Knock on the trees of the world would be condensed to 'KNOCK ON WOOD'.
The analogue analogue of the point-and-laugh sites are the Christmas facsimiles of etiquette handbooks or advice for girls. The difference is that they reproduce the material without commentary, ironic reading taken as read (http://www.livejournal.com/users/kaet/322918.html), whereas the websites bitch with style. (Oh, http://www.threadbared.com/ was the contribution I was struggling to remember.)
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Faith in fakes
Date: 2005-10-26 11:19 am (UTC)The analogue analogue of the point-and-laugh sites are the Christmas facsimiles of etiquette handbooks or advice for girls. The difference is that they reproduce the material without commentary, ironic reading taken as read (http://www.livejournal.com/users/kaet/322918.html), whereas the websites bitch with style. (Oh, http://www.threadbared.com/ was the contribution I was struggling to remember.)