If you look at the spine, just below Schiller, you can see a hole, as if the book were had been burrowed into by a large bug or bookworm. Open the book, and you find this damage, which seems unusually drastic.
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And what is that in the gutter? Is that the worm!?!
Not a worm at all -- turns out to be a bullet!
Can anyone identify this bullet, particularly in terms of how old it might be?
We have to wonder what took place in someone's library long ago: An accidental discharge? A life spared by bad aim? We will probably never know, but the mystery of it keeps this odd volume in our library.
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PS The book's title page is stamped with the name "Edward T. Berkanovic," who we know was a lawyer in Milwaukee and who, in 1990, donated six other items to our Institute.
