TBWCYL Day 295 - What the Heck

I am a bibliophile, which is like a pedophile but with more paper cuts. So when I read that I was going to have to deface a book for yesterday's task, I wasn't pleased. You see, I was tasked with removing a word from a book. For example I would need to take the word 'Spot' from See Spot Run and cross out all references of it from the book.

The idea of ruining a book is pretty disturbing to me. I am anal retentive when it comes to my books and if you were to check the Wonder Frog library you might not be able to tell what books have been read because I am a stickler for keeping the spines uncreased, the pages un-dog-eared and the book jackets in pristine condition. Luckily, I bought a copy of Hellboy: Seeds of Destruction a while back that had a defect in the gluing and the pages have started to separate and come out of the book. So, I saved it for this task.

Putting on my Southern Baptist persona I went about "Exorcising the demons!" so to speak. Since the main focus of the character is that he is named Hellboy, I decided that it just wasn't Christian to walk around with Hell in your name so I went through the entire book and changed his name to Heckboy. "We are cleansed".



That is all,

Newt