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Fahrenheit 451
Posted by Dr. Margaret Zeegers on 2009/08/19
I am sure that everybody has read, or is at least familiar with, Ray Bradbury's classic, 'Fahrenheit 451', the title indicative of the best temperature at which to burn books [Bradbury, R. (1953). Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books]. I picked up the 50th anniversary edition from my local library, because it has intersting bits added to the original one(the original came out in 1953, but the publisher of this edition of 50 years later STILL gives the date as 1953), such as a bit of an interview with Bradbury, called a conversation, at the end. In that conversation, Bradbury takes up the comparisons of his book with Orwell's '1984'. Bradbury argues that 'Fahrenheit 451' is more about social atmosphere than Orwell's, which is about political situations. A most interesting part of that conversation, though, is this bit:
'Let's imagine there's and earthquake tomorrow in the average university town. If only two buildings remainedintact at the end of the earthquake, what would they have to be ino order to rebuild everything that had been lost? Number one would be the medical building, because you need that to help pople to survive, to heal injuries and sickness. The other building would be the library. All the other buildingsare contained in that one. People could go into the library and get all the boks they needed in literature or social economics or politics or engineering, and take the books out on the lawn and sit down and read. Reading is at the centre of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization' (p. 184). I thought you'd like this idea. It certainly appeals to me.
'Let's imagine there's and earthquake tomorrow in the average university town. If only two buildings remainedintact at the end of the earthquake, what would they have to be ino order to rebuild everything that had been lost? Number one would be the medical building, because you need that to help pople to survive, to heal injuries and sickness. The other building would be the library. All the other buildingsare contained in that one. People could go into the library and get all the boks they needed in literature or social economics or politics or engineering, and take the books out on the lawn and sit down and read. Reading is at the centre of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization' (p. 184). I thought you'd like this idea. It certainly appeals to me.
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