It's a very rare find
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Wow, a Methuselah rookie card!
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To my darling Candy.
All characters portrayed within this book are fictitious and any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.
Homer.
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He was a lousy carpenter according to scholars: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OclYAJhyNY0
He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason
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That's nothin', can't beat my signed first draft of the Mahabharata, before it was ever even sent to an editor!
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Holy shit, Dan Castellaneta wrote The Iliad!?
He does so much extra work, I figured he would have fuck you money from Simpsons as it is
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That's nothing. I have a signed first edition of The Epic of Gilgamesh.
Let me know if the missing verses just randomly perished, were deemed "publisher-unfriendly" or never have been written.
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Rare texts are kinda my jam, a few highlights in my collection:
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A signed first edition of the Necronomicon (it still screams and bleeds)
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An early draft of the 10 commandments (before it got narrowed down to just 10)
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The treatise between cats and dogs that lead to cats getting litter boxes and dogs getting walks
Crazy that they removed the screaming from subsequent editions of the Necronomicon. Nowadays it's gone through so many revisions new copies don't even bleed. Sometimes the modern special editions will whimper a bit, but that's all you get.
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He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason
so you are saying Jesus was a stoner?
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What's like the coolest, most impressive literary book you can think of? But it has to be something most idiots will recognize.
I don't know, The Iliad?
Awesome. I need a rare book for this screenplay I'm writing. "First edition, signed copy..."
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Rare texts are kinda my jam, a few highlights in my collection:
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A signed first edition of the Necronomicon (it still screams and bleeds)
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An early draft of the 10 commandments (before it got narrowed down to just 10)
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The treatise between cats and dogs that lead to cats getting litter boxes and dogs getting walks
wrote on last edited by [email protected]This guy could sell a letter written (in French!) by Jesus himself, among other rarities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Vrain-Lucas -
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Let me know if the missing verses just randomly perished, were deemed "publisher-unfriendly" or never have been written.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oh those. They had to scratched off for being 'inappropriate'.
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Crazy that they removed the screaming from subsequent editions of the Necronomicon. Nowadays it's gone through so many revisions new copies don't even bleed. Sometimes the modern special editions will whimper a bit, but that's all you get.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Finding a untainted (no gooning!) virgin is near impossible, so getting the books to even give off an evil aura is next to impossible.
Also, since the 3rd Cosmic Revelation, there's no requirement to sign a pact with Cthulhu to print a copy, so quality control has dropped significantly.
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Jesus actually wrote a book! I got it, he signed it. His cursive is really becoming
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Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece
Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)
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If anybody's wondering... (Youtube link)
Also, ooof. Not that this looks to be a fine piece of cinema, but the writer didn't put this into the script, the director did. Apparently it's an 1884 printing of an 1853 edition of a 1720 translation (Pope's), so in no way whatsoever is it first edition of, well, anything. Maybe the worst part of it is that there was absolutely no reason to linger over the title. They never even say the name of the book.
Someone in the props department snuck in a joke.
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Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece
Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)
Actual bell curve: a eugenics source book also the basis for Idiocracy so you decide I guess.
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This guy could sell a letter written (in French!) by Jesus himself, among other rarities
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis_Vrain-LucasOh man, when French Jesus turns water into wine, you know it’s good…
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Left end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
Middle of the bell curve: haha she's stupid because Homer is from ancient Greece
Right end of the bell curve: wow signed first edition of the Illiad is so rare
(The Illiad as a modern translated work can have multiple editions from an author)
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Actual Right End: that's not what you'd refer to as a first edition of The Illiad, unless you're an idiot
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"The lord has given unto you these 15 —"
crash
"... 10 commandments!"
wrote on last edited by [email protected]There are in fact 21 listed Commandments btw
The first eleven (which it says are ten) listed in Exodus are different from the ones commonly repeated from Deuteronomy and are mostly about ensuring the comfort and power of the priest class through tithing
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He most likely wasn't a carpenter at all, the Greek just says 'builder'. Probably a stone mason
That explains the awful table.
