Don't want to touch it

Cellotape and dirt are holding this book together

Is the weather to blame for the state of this book?

Has it really fallen apart 'quickly'?

 

 

Or is it because it dates from 1974...

 

                                   which makes it nearly 40 years old.

Silly Billys

Two brothers take sharing to extreme measures injuring themselves in the process.
Apparently school books fall apart 'quickly' because they're taken out of school in all weathers...nothing to do with being antiques.
 
Samuel's verdict: It's yucky. I don't want to touch it.

School's definition of quickly:  Anything happening over a period of 40 years.

 

The rest of the world's definition of quickly: at a fast speed, rapidly.