HW: everything there is to know (2)

[Jon Browne]

In message <Pine.SUN.3.91.960329124256.25369A-100000 at helios.dmu.ac.uk>,
Maxine Wesley <mxw at DMU.AC.UK> writes
>Track: Fahrenheit 451
>Album: Choose Your Masques
>Ref: Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451
>
>There was a film based on Ray Bradbury's sci-fi novel of the same name..
>It describes a grim future where, with power being knowledge, all books
>are ordered to be burnt. The temperature referred to is the temperature at
>which paper ignites/combusts... sorry if the description is a bit vague
>but I havn't either read the book or seen the film.. anyone want to
>elucidate?
>
>
>Maxine

That's a fair description. The protagonist is a Fireman i.e. he sets
fire to things. He realises this is wrong and eventually makes his way
to a community where people each choose a book to memorise and "become".
The Lord Of The Rings bloke was quite funny, if I remember.
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Jon Browne