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To: Borges; All
Fahrenheit 451 .. one of the best sci-fi's ever written.

Ray Bradbury poses the scenereo; All books are banned and the threat of losing knowledge becomes real.

People adept at memorizing, memorize passages or all of the classics and live in the forest, reciting what they know/remember.


Fast foeward to now ... and we are made aware of the re-writing of history and if no one remembers or keeps a copy or record of the original, in time we lose the past, no longer able to refence the past, ...

too horrible to imaging.

15 posted on 01/07/2013 12:42:55 PM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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To: knarf

if you had to memorize a book, which would it be? i like to ask this question on Facebook every year on the anniversary of Ray Bradbury’s birthday...


18 posted on 01/07/2013 12:52:36 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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