From: | Zixx t_berghoff@*********.netsurf.de |
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Subject: | Spirit clothing |
Date: | Mon, 27 Sep 1999 16:45:34 +0200 |
> > ] > "Tyger, tyger, burning bright,"
> > ] >
> > ] > Maybe.
> > ] >
> > ] > -Boondocker
> > ] >
> > ] I'm afraid not. [Out of curiousity, though, where's _that_ from?]
> >
> > Rat nailed it. William Blake, an old English poet. I'm not a fan,
> > but I had to read it waaay back when. Where the heck is it from if it
> > ain't from that?
>
> Ray Bradbury : Farenheit 451
>
> I don't have the exact quote with me; it's at home, and I'm out-of-country.
> Does anyone have a copy handy?
>
> 50 more points of karma to anyone who can tell me the significance of the
> title of F451. [Hey, I feel like showing off!]
I'm a bit back on my email, so someone probably answered this already,
but but 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which paper starts
to burn.
Tobias Berghoff a.k.a Zixx
ICQ: 9293066
A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45
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