Save the book, pretend it was incinerated along with everything else sell it
for $50m donate the money to a cat sanctuary.
I've had more emails than spam with this thread : )
Paul
website: http://periodfinebindings.typepad.com/royal_bindings/
----- Original Message -----
From: <Ekslibris2@aol.com>
To: "Multiple recipients of list" <exlibris@library.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 5:02 PM
Subject: [EXLIBRIS:31718] RE: Gutenberg, Kitten (final word)
> Perhaps I should apologize to all the aelurophobes on the List for being
the
> one responsible for starting this thread.
>
> As invariably happens with such threads, this one has morphed into various
> unexpected and startling directions by taking on a life of its own -- in
this
> case, nine lives.
>
> The hypothetical situation I posited was a philosophical one, and stated
> simply:
>
> "If you could save a Gutenberg Bible from a burning building in which a
> kitten was also trapped, which one would you rescue -- assuming you could
save only
> one, not both?"
>
> (If you recall, the reason I chose the Gutenberg Bible, was that my
original
> question involved the lost books of Livy, which then became the
[irrelevant]
> subject of the discussion.)
>
> The point again is NOT the Gutenberg Bible. If the choice were changed to
> saving the kitten or the Book of Kells, as someone just suggested, I
personally
> would still save the kitten.
>
> But, hey, that's me.
>
> (And that's the last I will say on the matter).
>
> Fred Schreiber
>
>
>
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