"Fahrenheit 451"

[fiefoe]

Mostly, it reads like a bad dream.

• The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry. The men danced and slipped and fell over them. Titles glittered their golden eyes, falling, gone.
• (After the burning - ) There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.
• As the train was sucked from one end of the night city to the other on one long sickening gasp of motion,
  
• (He) saw the city, instead of the bombs, in the air. They had displaced each other. For another of those impossible instants the city stood, rebuilt and unrecognizable, taller than it had ever hoped or strived to be, taller than man had built it, erected at last in grouts of shattered concrete and sparkles of torn metal into a mural hung like a reversed avalanche, a million colors, a million oddities , a door where a window should be, a top for a bottom, a side for a back, and then the city rolled over and fell down dead.
  

Quotations:  
__ "Be of good cheer, Master Ridley, and play the man, for we shall this day light such a candle in England as I trust by God' grace shall never be put out." [Hugh Latimer]
__ We cannot tell the exact moment a friendship is formed; as in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses, there is at last one that makes the heart run over. [anon; v2]

sauterne: "Noble Rot"

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