A Book Is a Loaded Gun in the House Next Door. Burn It.
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"A Book Is a Loaded Gun in the House Next Door. Burn It."
Among the dystopian classics, I think Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 came pretty close to describing the way our world actually turned out. Guy Montag is a fireman in a not-too-distant future where the job of a fireman isn’t to put out fires, but to start them:
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.
