HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Fahrenheit 451
Rising from the ash,\ an idea immortalized.\ The burning of books.
#HAIKUPRAJNA - Review: Fahrenheit 451
"... Now, may I make you angry again?" "Go ahead."
I have read Fahrenheit 451 many times, so I'm surprised at my lack of a review. The topic of burning books, for me, is synonymous with death and the transcendence of ideas; Beatty was always a step ahead of Montag because Beatty incorporated the things he burned into his system, where Montag was at first unable to do so, until he had burned Beatty into his mind.
" I'm numb, he thought. When did the numbness really begin in my face? In my body? "
Ray Bradbury's rigorous display of the literary tradition of ideas in and of themselves underlies his understanding of how we as a collective of people are handled.
"There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!"
Half of my ebook is highlighted. One of my favorites, and I have learned to enjoy it even more after subsequent reads and after reading more between each time.
" The most important single thing we had to pound into ourselves was that we were not important, we mustn't be pedants; we were not to feel superior to anyone else in the world. "
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Until next time, Allen W. McLean