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I've been digging wordboner lately. I only recently found it, but I appreciate it's ability to make words into art. I'm learning about oral cultures in my Theory of Religion class and we discussed the book Orality and Literacy by Walter Ong where he talks about how words become objects in written culture. In oral culture words are an event, a moment, they are necessarily transient and only purposeful for communication. Once written down, once recorded, words themselves become objects and not just the means of communication. Wordboner appeals to this idea in me about words becoming objects. Anything like script or artistic depictions of words (think: Arabic script in mosques and illuminated texts).

Except that where illuminated texts and the script in mosques are the divine words of revelation to an entire religious community and wordboners tend to be a play on words that evokes less than religiously-inspired behavior. Like this one.

Also on this same note of books-words-religion, I would desperately love love love to go here someday. A church for books, helllllo, just what I've always wanted.