I hafta blog this...

I was talking to one of the other girls about schoolwork and she had some interesting books sitting on the counter (all about medical subjects). One in particular caught my eye, not because of its subject, but the implications of its aesthetic properties. Check this out:


The Merck Manual is a dictionary of medical terms (from what I understood) This has some interesting rhetorical properties, don't you think? Even the paper is a lot like that thin paper found in the bible. Now, I am not one to talk about religion on my blog, so I will leave that alone. But, I just found the whole situation thought provoking. Science/Medicine vs God...

Of course, I could do a search and probably find other books that look just as similar - maybe its cheaper to make it that way and so they are bound in the same fashion - but I enjoyed wondering what this meant... The old vs the new, or maybe a sort of truce that has been on for ages... a tenuous truce at best. Or am I just too behind and ignorant of the issues today - whatever they may be?