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Ray Bradbury, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut: A Pleasure to Burn
Anybody with a high school diploma has probably, by now, heard the famous line. “It was a pleasure to burn.” So opens Bradbury his novel about the condemnation of books and the destruction of ideas. Its protagonist, Guy Montag, a firefighter with a dry home life, no children, a distant wife. Montag’s job is to…