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Yeah, so… for anybody who didn’t know, the Dewey Decimal Classification (or the Dewey Decimal System) is a constantly evolving system first proposed by Melvin Dewey (an American Librarian) back in 1876; its goal is to classify books into meaningful sections
808.838
What’s that about? Well… that’s “Horror Fiction”.
Now… where should we file a book about an invisible monster who drowns almost all living things (when we know that that never happened)?
The question for today:
Should the Torah, the Pentateuch and the Tawrat (or collections including them, or any derivative works, Herr Schmitty, I’m lookin’ at you!) be filed properly under 808.838?
Secondary question for the day:
Would any of them compete with, say, Stephen King’s offerings? The Apocalypse of Peter?
Bonus question for the day:
What do you consider the best book that would accurately be filed under 808.838?
Personally, the only way I can conceive of the Bible being fairly labelled a “good book” (let alone the good book) is if it’s filed under 808.838, and I don’t think it’s a particularly good book, even then.
P.P.S. I got that info from ChatGPT (the classification of “Horror Fiction” as 808.838 from ChatGPT and hadn’t done my due diligence in checking it… it might not actually be…)