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Fahrenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

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Why we're reading this: It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed...He wanted...to shove…more
[close] It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed...He wanted...to shove a marshmallow on a stick in the furnace, while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house. While the books went up in sparkling whirls, and blew away on a wind turned dark with burning.

Quoted in Inkheart, chapt. 17, p. 153

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451 degrees Fahrenheit, or 233 degrees Celsius, is the temperature Ray Bradbury first believed to be the one needed to burn books (only later on, he learned that this isn’t quite right, but the classic was already given its title). What a horrible thing to imagine... You’re not allowed to read any books…not to own any either of course… books are bad and prevent people from being happy. Whoever owns any books is punished severely, and any books discovered are burne ...more

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