I read it back in Jr. High school

Post #31,920 by nking 3/12/02 7:47:24 PM Reply	I read it back in Jr. High school It was a reading assignment. Blame the school district if you wish. It was either that or "1984", at the time. "Will work for fair salary and benefits, seeking company with integrity."
Post #31,930 by Ashton 3/12/02 8:26:17 PM Reply	Yabut.. did it you Learn anything from that 'assignment' ?? or was it just another Sci-Fi, video-game, tic-tac-toe escape from thought, for another few hours..? WTF was Bradbury trying to say ?
Post #31,952 by mhuber 3/12/02 10:56:32 PM Reply	trying?? to say? I think he did more than try. The man can be extremely subtle at times. When he wrote that wasn't one of those times. ---- United we stand Divided we dominate the planet without really trying
Post #31,961 by Ashton 3/13/02 12:39:11 AM Reply	Question was for Norman, who referred to some 'reading assignment' - so unclear whether he's actually read it, or just skimmed to pass some test. The "trying to say" is just the normal cop-out.. for cases when someone didn't grok to fulness.. y'know? (Better than, I cannot live with this shame ;-) Yeah, Ray B. is pretty hard not to get.. but some didn't get Uncle Tom's Cabin. What's surprising (to me anyway) is for F-451 to have now become relevant so soon.. what with the Ashcroftian Era gathering momentum - 'Millennium' Patriot Act. DMCA. Habeas corpus suspended. Wholesale snooping now codified. SCSSA-wtf it gets called... CIA, NSA can work At Home now. A Veep - hiding in subterranean caverns. A Pres - inarticulate even w/ teleprompter. Repeal of many important treaties - by fiat / sans discusssion. And now: supply your reading list on demand. What's warming up in the wings? And thus far - the sheep safe-ly graze. Cheers, Ashton Thanks Ray Bradbury! - for another symbol of triumph over the ever-waiting power-obsessed: the Living Book. It was about love.
Post #32,353 by orion 3/15/02 1:30:36 PM Reply	I listened to Bill Cosby he said "If you are not careful you may learn something" from his "Cosby Kids/ Fat Albert" shows. So I was careful and I didn't learn anything from it. I went back to playing Pac-Man and Space Invaders after reading it. Then I played Laser Blast and got a million points and turned the numbers into exclimation points! :) *I am free now, to choose my own destiny.*

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