Montag destroys "the tatters and charcoal ruins of history". The flamethrower a python spitting kerosene. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history."Īll those great metaphors. "It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. The rest of the opening is also nicely styled. (I used it in our Off To a Good Start quiz a couple of years ago.)
The first line, "It was a pleasure to burn," is a real grabber, and is well known. The latter sticks a little more closely to Bradbury's plot.
It's worth it just for some of the prose.įahrenheit 451 was made into a movie twice: in 1966 by François Truffaut and in 2018 by HBO. I last read Fahrenheit 451 (aka Celsius 233 :) a year and half ago, 2018, just before the HBO movie was released, and I'm re-reading it again now.
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