This is just one of my favorite passages from Fahrenheit 451, share with us your favorite passage (quote).
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
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"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores." -Professor Fabar, page 83
This is just one of my favorite passages from Fahrenheit 451, share with us your favorite passage (quote).
This is just one of my favorite passages from Fahrenheit 451, share with us your favorite passage (quote).
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"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies...A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away." (p 156-7)
ReplyDelete// Tony Toto - Science Dept (BCH '66)
"Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me"
ReplyDelete-Guy Montag upon meeting Clarisse Mclellan for the first time.
Doesn't that just sum up the entire concept of the fireman?
-Alex Bailey, Class of 2013
"He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror,too,her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you? People were more often-he searched for a simile, found one in his work-torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your innermost trembling thought?"
ReplyDelete"There was a silly damn bird called a phoenix back before Christ, every few hundred years he built a pyre and burnt himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man. But every time he burnt himself up he sprang out of the ashes, he got himself born all over again. And it looks like we're doing the same thing, over and over."
ReplyDelete- Ryan Melia, Class of 2014
Mr. T. Toto took the words from me in a previous comment. "Everone must leave something behind when he dies..." This passage in the book really struck me since it attempts to answer the age old question What is the purpose of life? Bradbury goes on to give a metaphor to explain the quote. He writes, "The difference between the man who just cuts the lawn and a real gardener is in the touching." How many times do we just cut the lawn in our lives? We sometimes, maybe too often, rush to get work, projects, even socializing done just so we can say we're done rather than taking the time and care to really put our own special touch on things. It takes more effort to truly touch something or someone, and we are often too lazy or too distracted to give that kind of effort. This entire passage to me is what Ignatian teaching is all about. We say we do all things AMDG and that we are people for others, and if we live in this manner then we will "touch" things and leave our mark behind.
ReplyDeleteI would have to agree with Mrs. Guiney.
ReplyDelete"Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book has pores." -Professor Fabar, page 83
I would love to know who the "anonymous" poster was who agrees with me! Don't forget to write your name and graduation date when posting.
ReplyDelete"With an effort, Montag reminded himself again that this was no fictional episode to be watched on his run to the river; it was in actuality his own chess game he was witnessing, move by move."
ReplyDelete- Jake May, Class of '16
"Well, now you did it. Old Montag wanted to fly near the sun and now that he's burnt his damn wings he wonders why."
ReplyDeleteChristian Navarro class of '15
I agree with Mr. Toto.
ReplyDelete"Everyone must leave something behind when he dies... A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made or a garden planted. Something your hand touched someway so your soul has somwhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what... so long as you changed something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away." (pgs. 156-157)
Sean Craig
Class of 2013