If you don't know, the "Wreck This Journal" is a book of all kinds of random ideas on how to destroy/improve the book. The instructions are totally open to interpretation. Like for instance, there is a page that says "Write one word over and over again". This could mean pick some random word that strikes your fancy and write it all over the page. Or you could literally write "one word" all over the page.
Doesn't seem hard now does it? I didn't think so. Until we went to B&N on Monday and found the book. Now I have a dilemma.
And my dilemma is two fold.
One, it is a book. I have spent my whole life taking care of my books. I like them to be all clean and pretty. I love the smell of new books, the way the pages feel when they're still all crisp, but this book is telling me to do all kinds of things like smear dirt on one page or to "pour, spill, drip, spit, fling your coffee here" and to "cut through several layers". What?! You want me to do what to a book?
Two, if I can some how manage to get over my weirdness about defacing a book, am I creative enough to come up with cool ways of following the directions? I've looked up pictures of other people's books (Yes. They post the pictures. Type Wreck This Journal into Google and click on the Flickr one). What if I come up with lame ways of following the instructions? What if my book just turns out stupid?
So for now I just stare at the book. I mean I do open it and read the instructions. I was even going to do one of them tonight. Something easy to ease me into it. One page simply says "Crack the Spine". I have tons of books that have had the spine cracked while I was reading them. But none of them have intentionally been cracked. I couldn't do it. I put the book down. I can't even do the page where it tells you a bunch of different ways to write your name.
I failed.
