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From: caelric@****.com caelric@****.com
Subject: Spirit clothing
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 08:46:19 -0700
At 10:48 AM 9/19/99 -0400, you wrote:
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>50 more points of karma to anyone who can tell me the significance of the
>title of F451. [Hey, I feel like showing off!]
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The temp at which paper, specifically books, self ignites, whcih is mostly
what the book is all about. Burning books, censorship, etc... Any self
respecting reader of sci-fi should know this, and if they don't, well....

By the way, the phrase burning bright did originally come from the Tyger
tyger burning bright, etc quote that someone else said.

Dave


Blaming guns for violence is like blaming spoons for overweight people

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