[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[gaysidneycrosby]

post-email aftercare like that was a great email and you seemed so normal

[sioltach]

Your quality of life will increase ten-fold when you learn to appreciate the sight of a little bird

[whimsical-laboratory-tragedy]

People in my class are using ai to summarize the novel we’re supposed to be reading instead of actually reading it

The novel is Fahrenheit 451

How ironic

[fuckyeahsciencefiction]

[odinsblog]

[tan-talks]

my reading list is out

[palatinewolfsblog]

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." Ray Bradbury.

[izel-scribbles]

just finished fahrenheit 451. i HATE when dystopian authors turn out to be right

[remusjohnslupin]

LITERATURE SERIES: Dystopia

“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever… And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon." ― George Orwell (1984)

[tilbageidanmark]

2 unusual editions of Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451’.

[tan-talks]

need.

[laceandlitany]

I don't see enough people mourning over the slow death of physical media. And I don't just mean TV shows, video games, or movies--which don't even get me started about how we don't really 'own' anything anymore. It includes notes, journals, and letters to one another...so much of our history is lost when we lose a password, a website goes down, a file/hardware is corrupted, or a platform disappears. History that doesn't seem important until you no longer have access to it. Physical media does a lot for memory recall. How many memories will we lose because we don't have something tangible to tie it back to? Something to hold in our hands and stir up those memories we thought were once lost? Sometimes I wonder what the difference between burning a book and losing access to physical media is when someone can pull the plug and remove your access so easily.

[cosmomatic]

when i read a book that's called a classic for a reason

[tan-talks]

and when i realise why the system doesn't want me to read it-

forbidden fiction, my beloved.

[etirabys]

One of the many stupid feelings humans are capable of having is the private, repulsive rage of seeing someone getting support and sympathy for a problem no one helped you with when you were having it, either because you didn’t have anyone or because it never occurred to you that you could ask for help. Suddenly the world seems to split into two – the realm that contains people like them, the connected and loved – and the realm that contains you, the miserable and the alone, who must suffer in solitude. This is sufficiently horrible that you grasp for reasons or world-understandings to make this reality acceptable, and a mentally available one is that it is superior to be in the miserable solitude realm, that the problem is one that should be solved with self sufficiency and dignity. That this other person is pathetic for being aided and loved when you were not. Scorn is more palatable than confronting the notion that you could have received aid (if you had made different choices or been luckier), that you desperately wish you could have been aided but were not. Scorn is more palatable than the howling hunger for things to have been different for you. So your mind chooses scorn.

It is also a bad place to be. Human existence is full of such traps.

[nixscriptum]

[mournfulroses]

Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector