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Whose Skull Would You Steal?

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

cranioklepty cvr Whose Skull Would You Steal? Whose Skull Would You Steal?Unbridaled Books is having a “Whose Skull Would You Steal?” thing going on to pump up the macabre book by Colin Dickey,  CRANIOKLEPTY: GRAVE ROBBING AND THE SEARCH FOR GENIUS (Pub date: September 29, 2009).

How odd.  And how entertaining!

This really got me thinking. First I thought Socrates, then the apostle Paul, then Daniel, of the Lion’s Den fame, or Joseph, of the many colored coat, and on and on. But what about Benjamin Franklin? Thomas Jefferson? George Washington? Abraham Lincoln? Theodore Roosevelt?

It’s really a lot easier to think of the ones I wouldn’t dig with a ten food spade.

Anyway, if character and significance is seated in the brain, I’d pick either Daniel or Joseph or Paul or Peter or David.  They’re my biggest heroes.

Who would you pick?