d my first classic during this entire booky blog experiment. I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. God what a writer. Reading an exceptionally well-written book really calls attention to all of the crap I read and try to make better in my head. It is about many things and has many levels to it. I could write a paper. But, for the purposes of the here and now I will just say that it is about an alternate society, one that Bradbury felt was a potentially possible future for society. It is about a society that has burned all of their books because the ideas have the potential to make them sad or dissatisfied in a way the people do not feel is necessary. Better just to watch the gigantic tvs and not even really interact much with each other. The firemen, which our eventual hero is one of, do not put out fires but in fact answer tips for suspected book owners and burn the books and the houses that hold them. The fireman meets a girl and her observations of the world and his role in it start to wake him up to a different way of interacting with the world. He ends up on the run from the police and meets up with a group of intellectuals who have been forced onto the fringes of society, tramps living by the tracks. And as each one introduces himself they say things like I am Great Expections, I am this part of the bible, I am this classic or the other, because they have all committed at least one book to memory in order to save a part of literary history. It is amazing as they trudge into the uncertain future with parts of books in their heads. Who knows if there will be a chance to write them down again some day. Or if they will just pass them along to willing future recipients. It is shocking and prophetic and extremely well written. Quite satisfying. And the point when they start introducing themselves as books is really moving.
Friday, December 11, 2009
burn burn burn
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d my first classic during this entire booky blog experiment. I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. God what a writer. Reading an exceptionally well-written book really calls attention to all of the crap I read and try to make better in my head. It is about many things and has many levels to it. I could write a paper. But, for the purposes of the here and now I will just say that it is about an alternate society, one that Bradbury felt was a potentially possible future for society. It is about a society that has burned all of their books because the ideas have the potential to make them sad or dissatisfied in a way the people do not feel is necessary. Better just to watch the gigantic tvs and not even really interact much with each other. The firemen, which our eventual hero is one of, do not put out fires but in fact answer tips for suspected book owners and burn the books and the houses that hold them. The fireman meets a girl and her observations of the world and his role in it start to wake him up to a different way of interacting with the world. He ends up on the run from the police and meets up with a group of intellectuals who have been forced onto the fringes of society, tramps living by the tracks. And as each one introduces himself they say things like I am Great Expections, I am this part of the bible, I am this classic or the other, because they have all committed at least one book to memory in order to save a part of literary history. It is amazing as they trudge into the uncertain future with parts of books in their heads. Who knows if there will be a chance to write them down again some day. Or if they will just pass them along to willing future recipients. It is shocking and prophetic and extremely well written. Quite satisfying. And the point when they start introducing themselves as books is really moving.
d my first classic during this entire booky blog experiment. I read Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. God what a writer. Reading an exceptionally well-written book really calls attention to all of the crap I read and try to make better in my head. It is about many things and has many levels to it. I could write a paper. But, for the purposes of the here and now I will just say that it is about an alternate society, one that Bradbury felt was a potentially possible future for society. It is about a society that has burned all of their books because the ideas have the potential to make them sad or dissatisfied in a way the people do not feel is necessary. Better just to watch the gigantic tvs and not even really interact much with each other. The firemen, which our eventual hero is one of, do not put out fires but in fact answer tips for suspected book owners and burn the books and the houses that hold them. The fireman meets a girl and her observations of the world and his role in it start to wake him up to a different way of interacting with the world. He ends up on the run from the police and meets up with a group of intellectuals who have been forced onto the fringes of society, tramps living by the tracks. And as each one introduces himself they say things like I am Great Expections, I am this part of the bible, I am this classic or the other, because they have all committed at least one book to memory in order to save a part of literary history. It is amazing as they trudge into the uncertain future with parts of books in their heads. Who knows if there will be a chance to write them down again some day. Or if they will just pass them along to willing future recipients. It is shocking and prophetic and extremely well written. Quite satisfying. And the point when they start introducing themselves as books is really moving.
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