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 Posted: Thu 4:07, 01 Aug 2013 Post subject: Guy Montag -- |
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Moving Towards a Physical Archive of the World's Books Jared Keller Jun 7 2011, 1:10 PM ET Tweet More Email Print Internet Archive,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a digital repository,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], wants to collect and preserve a copy of every single book that's ever been publishedMy love for books comes from a story of their utter destruction.As an adolescent, my father made an effort to turn me on to Ray Bradbury by screening the 1966 François Truffaut film adaptation of Fahrenheit 451,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], set in a dystopian future where possessing books is a criminal offense. Apart from the enduring irony of a society where firemen are dispatched to set fires rather than extinguish them,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], one scene has stayed with me since that initial viewing. Oskar Werner -- in the role of the former fireman and now fugitive Guy Montag -- escapes to the countryside and finds himself among a group who have memorized entire books,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], preserving them orally until the law against books is overturned. "Are you interested in Plato's Republic?" asks
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