FAHRENHEIT
451
In Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury spins a tale of book burning and suppression of knowledge. Real life history tells us that this was not a novel idea. Everybody knows about Nazi Germany and the book burning orgies: .
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Way before that, but quite after the
torching of Alexander's great library, Europe had a solution for the menacing
spread of knowledge as depicted in the engravings below: .
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In "The Book of
Abraham", "written by Himself", published in
Boston - for the purchaser- in 1846, the following woodcut is used as a
frontispiece: .
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