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June 16, 2004
"You always dread the unfamiliar...We all must be alike. Not
everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every
other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book
is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon. Breach man's mind.
Who knows who might be the target of a well-read man?"
~Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) Just
so you realize, this is written from the government's point of view in the book, and is therefore a satire of his (and my)
real feelings.
June 17, 2004
"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every
few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time
he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the
same thing, over and over, but we've got one damn thing the phoenix never had. We know the damn silly thing we just
did. we know all the damn silly things we've done for a thousand years and as long as we know that and always have it
around where we can see it, someday we'll stop making the goddamn funeral pyres and jumping in the middle of them. We
pick up a few more people that remember every generation."
~Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451)
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