hongi

Так они здороваются там, в Новой Зеландии.

The Telegraph

 

не только абажуры

According to the Houghton Library at Harvard], where Houssaye's book resides, "in the mid-1880s, Houssaye presented his recent book, a meditation on the soul and life after death, to his friend Dr Ludovic Bouland, a noted medical doctor and prominent bibliophile. Bouland bound the book with skin from the unclaimed body of a female mental patient who had died of a stroke".

A note from Bouland inserted in the book reads: "This book is bound in human skin parchment on which no ornament has been stamped to preserve its elegance. By looking carefully you easily distinguish the pores of the skin. A book about the human soul deserved to have a human covering: I had kept this piece of human skin taken from the back of a woman."

theguardian