Part One: The Hearth and the Salamander
How inconvenient! Always before it had been like snuffing a candle. The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you a...
Part Two: The Sieve and the Sand
Mildred kicked at a book. "Books aren't people. You read and I look around, but there isn't anybody!" (2.20)
Part Three: Burning Bright
He took Montag quickly into the bedroom and lifted a picture frame aside, revealing a television screen the size of a postal card. "I always wanted something very small, something I could talk to,...