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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:17 AM Original message |
Ray Bradbury wasn't condemning censorship in "Fahrenheit 451" |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:03 AM Response to Original message |
1. Marking this for later. |
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MicaelS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:21 AM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Youu statement reeks of preteniousness |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:30 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. The ghost of Authorial Intent rises from the grave... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:27 PM Response to Reply #1 |
6. Maybe yes, maybe no. |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
3. Bradbury disagreeing with his readers' interpretations doesn't surprise me |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. He once walked out of a university symposium because students told him that his interpretation |
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pinboy3niner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. LOL! |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. A lot of writers start off intending to write one type of story |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
27. Apparently that kind of thing isn't uncommon |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:05 AM Response to Original message |
4. Here's an article about that and some other books like it ... |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:09 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. Odd...I already knew about the mathematical tie-in of Alice in Wonderland. |
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meegbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 03:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. That one I didn't ... |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:13 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. That one's a little iffy. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 06:26 PM Response to Reply #4 |
17. It's a fun read but seems factually unreliable to me: for example |
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Curmudgeoness (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 03:01 PM Response to Reply #4 |
28. I really enjoyed that link. It makes me think about books I have read |
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DebJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 09:10 AM Response to Original message |
5. Interesting timing...I have the movie version coming to my |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 02:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. A great adaptation, hope you enjoy it! |
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hyphenate (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
14. It was also a comment |
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NuclearDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-22-10 05:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. I thought it was pretty obvious that's what Bradbury meant... |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 12:03 AM Response to Original message |
18. Many authors have radical breaks in their thought. |
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jobycom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 12:31 AM Response to Reply #18 |
22. He was saying the same things shortly after it was published, though. |
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RandomThoughts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 06:50 AM Response to Original message |
19. He may not know what it means. |
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DebJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 08:41 AM Response to Original message |
20. Hubby connected "Kindle" and book-burning of Fahrenheit. |
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KurtNYC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-23-10 10:50 AM Response to Original message |
21. he must have been very conflicted when he did |
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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 12:48 AM Response to Original message |
23. he got the temperature wrong, too |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
24. "Writer's intent." |
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Lyric (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 01:57 AM Response to Reply #24 |
25. As a writer myself who's taken many, many creative writing classes in college |
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InvisibleTouch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 02:10 AM Response to Reply #25 |
26. In the case of your example I would say... |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-24-10 11:22 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. It would be more amusing to ask Emily Dickinson just what she meant by |
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