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I am a ruiner of books. I have no respect when I’m reading. I want to kill the pages and I smudge and violate and spit when it seems fit and I fold the corners like they belong to me, betraying all bookmarks that crept before. I distrust people who take care of books. I wonder at their reasons.

When I was 13 I came across a really bad book in a free bin and I read it and tore every page out as I finished it and let the page fall to the floor where ever I walked or sat because I knew that even though I kept reading, it didn’t change the fact that it was terrible. It made for some good street theater though I suppose.

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