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Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a significance which stretches beyond their literal importance.
Whether the bone of a Catholic martyr or Jimi Hendrix's guitar pick, relics are the objects which the faithful understand as being more than just objects.
Material things of sacred importance, relics are indicative of a culture's deepest values.
Ed Simon is an essayist, author, and the Editor-in-Chief for Belt Magazine.
He talks to Jim Mora about his latest work, 'Relic: Object Lessons', is a series of short books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
