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Old 06-13-2012, 12:57 AM   #63
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Originally Posted by teh603 View Post
Dunno. I've read a good chunk of 451 and an entire graphic novel rendition. Can't say I like it. Too much fuel for the toxi-capitalist "government is evil" movement. Course the other one about the schoolteacher getting replaced- which was run in Boys Life back in the early Clinton era- wasn't any better.

I kinda wish I could've asked him why he and Orwell and Rand were so strongly anti-government. I'd like to do something entirely different to Rand.
Actually he was one of the few people who actually stood up to McCarthy and his unamerican committee I believe. I don't know about Orwell and Rand though.
The real lesson of Fahrenheit 451
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ray...ahrenheit-451/
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