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Fahrenheit 451 (proven more prescient than ever)
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury ^ | 1953 | Ray Bradbury

Posted on 06/25/2015 10:44:38 AM PDT by Mr. K

FAHRENHEIT 451
by Ray Bradbury
This one, with gratitude, is for DON CONGDON.
FAHRENHEIT 451:
The temperature at which book-paper catches fire and burns

PART I
IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN
IT was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history. With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head, and his eyes all orange flame with the thought of what came next, he flicked the igniter and the house jumped up in a gorging fire that burned the evening sky red and yellow and black. He strode in a swarm of fireflies.
He wanted above all, like the old joke, 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.
Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame. He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel man, burntcorked, in the mirror.
Later, going to sleep, he would feel the fiery smile still gripped by his face muscles, in the dark. It never went away, that. smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered.

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TOPICS: Books/Literature; Government; Miscellaneous; Politics
KEYWORDS: bookburners; bookburning; books; dystopia; fahrenheit451; liberalfascism; raybradbury; sciencefiction
This and Orwell's Animal Farm must be read again to your children

This is a link to a free download

1 posted on 06/25/2015 10:44:38 AM PDT by Mr. K
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To: Mr. K

True.
Separately, I’ve read Atlas Shrugged at least a half dozen times, starting in the early ‘70’s. Every time I read it I can’t help but notice that the America described therein is becoming a reality.


2 posted on 06/25/2015 10:47:48 AM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Mr. K

The Rebel Flag is now an unperson.

George Orwell 1984


3 posted on 06/25/2015 10:48:16 AM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: Mr. K

1984 & Animal Farm are on my 13YO son’s reading list this summer. I’ll let him read Atlas Shrugged in a couple of years, he’s already seen the movie trilogy. The sex passages in AS aren’t appropriate for him.


4 posted on 06/25/2015 10:49:34 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Mr. K


5 posted on 06/25/2015 10:53:52 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: Night Hides Not
The sex passages in AS aren’t appropriate for him.

Aren't there a few in 1984? It's been a while since I last read it.

6 posted on 06/25/2015 10:54:12 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: Mr. K

Humpty Dumbty Roberts is the Chief Fireman.


7 posted on 06/25/2015 11:03:10 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: chajin

Thanks for the warning, it’s been years since I read it.


8 posted on 06/25/2015 11:06:42 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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To: Mr. K

Has this country gone completely mad?

We need to understand this process by which the media and internet activists can so easily whip of the mob. Our only hope is that they will take it too far, and provoke a reaction. But at this point, I don’t even know what “too far” would look like.


9 posted on 06/25/2015 11:07:27 AM PDT by altsehastiin
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To: Borges; Perdogg

ping


10 posted on 06/25/2015 11:07:54 AM PDT by EveningStar
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To: montag813
Block 813 Ping.


11 posted on 06/25/2015 11:37:59 AM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Mr. K
Ray Bradbury was not a liberal. I'm not sure he was a conservative, but he was not a liberal.

OT, but I'm pretty sure that's also true about the Coen brothers.

12 posted on 06/25/2015 11:42:46 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: Paladin2

But just as an aside; Humpty Dumpty was never ID’d as an egg. In the written version that is.


13 posted on 06/25/2015 12:07:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: Night Hides Not
The sex passages in AS aren’t appropriate for him.

Weren't there similar passages in 1984?

14 posted on 06/25/2015 12:09:43 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: altsehastiin

We have already reached to far and are heading for no return.


15 posted on 06/25/2015 12:23:46 PM PDT by certrtwngnut
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To: Night Hides Not
Whenever I see a FReeper handle I don't recognize, I look to see if that person has shared anything of him(her)self on their personal page.

I took note of this passage on yours:

"Living in a foreign land for 4+ years intensified my love for this country, warts and all. That this country survived 8 years of Bill Clinton is a testament to the wisdom, brilliance, and foresight of our Founding Fathers who crafted our Constitution."

I am supposing that particular sentence was written a few years ago. My question is simple:

What say you now?

16 posted on 06/25/2015 1:27:30 PM PDT by shibumi ("Cover it with gas and set it on fire.")
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To: shibumi

It’s obvious I need to revise my home page...lol. Given the political winds today, I’m likely to delete the whole nine yards.


17 posted on 06/25/2015 1:45:49 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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