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  • I Love You, Madame Librarian (Kurt Vonnegut has lost his mind)

    08/23/2004 12:29:55 PM PDT · by mountaineer · 53 replies · 1,470+ views
    in these times ^ | 8/6/04 | Kurt Vonnegut
    I, like probably most of you, have seen Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11. Its title is a parody of the title of Ray Bradbury’s great science fiction novel, Fahrenheit 451. This temperature 451° Fahrenheit, is the combustion point, incidentally, of paper, of which books are composed. The hero of Bradbury’s novel is a municipal worker whose job is burning books. ... ....In case you haven’t noticed, we also dehumanize our own soldiers, not because of their religion or race, but because of their low social class. Send ’em anywhere. Make ’em do anything. Piece of cake. The O’Reilly Factor. So I...