Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury is a cautionary tale about an oppressive future where the government burns books. All the books. The protagonist saves one before burning it, and starts down the dangerous path of reading.
I’ve been looking for places to hide books ever since I watched the 1966 adaptation by François Truffaut when I was in 7th or 8th grade. In the novel, people hide their books to keep them from the flames. In walls, in secret holes in the floor, concealed by pictures hanging on the wall. Every house I’ve lived in, the thought occurs to me. Maybe there’s room inside the return air vent, or behind a loose bit of paneling.
Books are dangerous to society. They give people ideas they would be better off without. Every book banner and burner has believed they are making the world a better place. If you destroy the book, you destroy thought that should never be thought.
Ebooks, for all their convenience and portability, make it that much easier for the government to erase a writer’s words. Or change them. I’ll keep buying paperbacks and looking for places to hide them should the day come when I’m all that stands between what an author thought and cared about, and the oblivion that awaits paper at 451 degrees.
Where will you hide your books?
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