--- Joseph Fenton <jlfenton@npgcable.com> wrote:

DB Sommer wrote:

It read, 'Fahrenheit 451.'

It was great right up to that line. I'm not sure
what I would
have picked, but it CERTAINLY wouldn't have been
that
one. I LIVED in libraries while growing up. You
could go into
the library, pick ANY three books at random, and my
name
would be on the cards of two of them. I can see no
reason at
all why Fahrenheit 451 would effect anyone who loved
books in any way but positively.

Because it's a book about book burning, where the
main character is a "fireman" in the sense that he
brings fire to any written material (which the state
has deemed disruptive to the social order).  Farenheit
451 is, specifically, the temperature at which paper
combusts.

Well-written as it was, the imagery would certainly
traumatize a lover of paper.  Historical records could
be forgiven because they were accounts of what did
happen, lessons in mistakes not to be repeated.
Fiction is another thing entirely.

I wonder what her views would have been of ticker tape
parades, where paper that carried information of
temporary use was destroyed, but in so doing at least
served a bit more purpose than it was originally
destined for?

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