Dead Language Geek Photo Contest

[RichardRBarrett]

http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/official-dead-language-geek-photo-contest-entry-post/
http://leitourgeia.wordpress.com/2009/05/07/its-the-oxford-latin-dictionary-great-scott-yes-that-too/

Find a creative way to picture yourselves with your ginormous dead language reference materials. If that’s a photo, great. If that’s a video, great. Just come up with something. Mine’s pretty obvious; you can do better than that.

Post it on Flickr or Twitpic or YouTube or wherever, and then leave a link as a comment on this post.

You have until 22 May 2009 to take your picture and post your link (which means I also have that long to come up with a prize or prizes).

Multiple entries are fine.

Tweet this, Facebook it, e-mail it around, put it up in skywriting — but I want to see as many entries as possible. I’m quite serious about this. Let’s show the world we’ve got big, heavy, obscure books, and we’re not ashamed of that.

[annis]

My Sanskrit dictionary can totally beat up the Great Scott or the unabridged Latin dictionary. Maybe not both of them at the same time, though.

[Chris Weimer]

My Greek to Latin / Latin to Greek dictionary from the 1700's beats your Sanskrit dictionary.

[pythagoras.lym]

Let's see some Pics!!

[mingshey]

Oh, it's too late for me.
Big Books I got are LSJ, Sanskrit dictionary, but not Oxford Latin Dictionary. But I could add the facsimile edition of Leningrad Codex on my list, although it's not a reference material.
And there're small items like Smyth's grammar, Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar and Hebrew-Chaldee lexicon, Chase and Phillips, a small Latin dic, Middle Liddell, Small Sanskrit dic.,

But then in Athenaze Book I, page 23, Callimachus of Alexandria is quoted to have said, "μέγα βιβλίον, μέγα κακόν."

[Bert]

....

But then in Athenaze Book I, page 23, Callimachus of Alexandria is quoted to have said, "μέγα βιβλίον, μέγα κακόν."

Even the Bible says: And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh. (I am of course taking this out of its context. A great man once said: " a proof texts is a text taking out context as pretext for a proof text.)