Arielle Silbert’s Reviews > Fahrenheit 451 > Status Update

I fear the older I get the more I relate to Montag. I too feel like the world around me is getting more and more stupid and complacent

“I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we’ve dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? H e’s a regular peppermint stick now, all sugar – crystal and saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshiper ‘absolutely’ needs.”
Man how tf did Bradbury know….. how far we’ve fallen.

“He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognized this as the true state of affairs. he wore his happiness like a mask and the girl has run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.”

so that’s why i used to listen to The Stranger w this book…..: