Just watched The Name of the Rose...

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...and I must say I can finally justify my distaste for turning pages in books/journals through finger-licking! (Don't know if there's a technical name for that... I know that sounds awkward.)

The movie is great, but the book is far better. The movie doesn't really have the time to go into the background necessary to get a basic understanding of the real situation at the time.

When I read the book, I kept a really good dictionary at hand and a couple of comprehensive history books about that period in time.

I thought it was a toxin which absorbs through skin with no need for finger licking, I know that there are some books which are toxic. I have read that Marie Curie's and Rutherford's notebooks are crawling with so much radium that they can not be handled without special precautions.

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