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Old 06-05-2007, 11:27 AM   #1
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
 
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Originally Posted by SteveDallas View Post
"Everybody knows" that Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451 is about censorship. (Many people, of course, know this because they were told it by their English teachers.)

Yet Bradbury recently said that's not it at all. It's really about the decline of literacy (as in the practice of reading books, if not the actual skill of being able to read) and the rise of video.

So who's right? Who am I (or anybody else) to ascribe a certain meaning to a book when the author himself has said that view is wrong? Is Bradbury being overly stubborn in his seeming reluctance to understand why people have interpreted his work this way?
I think what you're saying here, is that the internet is strictly for porn. Am I interpreting your work accurately?
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