Kurt Vonnegut had this to say in the Guardian this past Saturday:
"The title of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 is a parody of the
title of Ray Bradbury's great science-fiction novel Fahrenheit 451.
Four hundred and fifty-one degrees 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.
While
on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not
famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have
staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove
certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than
have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked
out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in
the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of
Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the
front desks of our public libraries."
We are legion and we are mighty as long as we stick together. More importantly, we are right and they are wrong. Tell everyone who will listen. Then tell everyone who won't listen.
I'm buying this book and I posted the entire excerpt behind the link.
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