why does the subway advertisement bother montag “It was a pleasure to burn.” (page 3) “It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed.” (page 3) “With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world” (page 3) “while the flapping pigeon-winged books died on the porch and lawn of the house” (page 3) “Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.” (page 4) “It never went away, that smile, it never ever went away, as long as he remembered.” (page 4) “the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb” (page 4) “He walked toward the corner, thinking little at all about nothing in particular” (page 4) “Her head was half bent to watch her shoes stir the circling leaves” (page 5) “stood regarding Montag with eyes so dark and shining and alive that he felt he had said something quite wonderful” (page 6) “And you must be the fireman.” “How oddly you say that.” “I’d have known it with my eyes shut” (page 6) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “He felt she was walking in a circle about him, turning him end for end, shaking him quietly, and emptying his pockets, without once moving herself.” (page 6) “Kerosene is nothing but perfume to me.” (page 6) “She gave herself time to think of it.” (page 6) “there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized this was quite impossible, so late in the year.” (page 7) “he knew she was working his questions around, seeking the best answers she could possibly give.” (page 7) “I’m seventeen and I’m crazy.” (page 7) “I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking and watch the sun rise.” (page 7) “You know, I’m not afraid of you at all.” (page 7) “So many people are. Afraid of firemen, I mean. But you’re just a man, after all…” (page 7) “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” “That’s against the law!” (page 8) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “burn ‘em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That’s our official slogan.” (page 8) “Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?” (page 8) “no. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it.” (page 8) “You laugh when I haven’t been funny and you answer right off. You never stop to think what I’ve asked you.” (page 8) “He drove forty miles an hour and they jailed him for two days. Isn’t that funny, and sad, too?” (page 9) “‘You think too many things,’ said Montag, uneasily.” (page 9) “I rarely watch the ‘parlor walls’ or go to races or Fun Parks. So I’ve lots of time for crazy thoughts, I guess.” (page 9) “There’s dew on the grass in the morning.” “he suddenly cloudn’t remember if he had known this or not, and it made him quite irritable.” (page 9) “They walked the rest of the way in silence, his a kind of clenching and uncomfortable silence in which he shot her accusing glances.” (page 9) “Are you happy?” (page 10) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “He suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down at him now. He moved his eyes quickly away.” (page 10) “she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid” (page 11) “He opened the bedroom door. It was like coming into the cold marbled room of a mausoleum after the moon has set.” (page 11) “Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb world” (page 11) “The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp snug in its special pink warm nest.” (page 11-12) “he felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself” (page 12) “He was not happy. He was not happy. He said the words to himself. He recognised this as the true state of affairs.” (page 12) “He wore his happiness like a mask” (page 12) “He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask” (page 12) “His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable.” (page 12) why does the subway advertisement bother montag PasteShr why does the subway advertisement bother montag “The room was not empty.” “The room was indeed empty.” (page 11-12) “he felt his way toward his open, separate, and therefore cold bed” (page 12) “An instant before his foot hit the object on the floor he knew he would hit such an object.” (page 12) “he stood very straight and listened to the person on the dark bed” (page 13) “The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the farthest fringes of life” (page 13) “two pale moonstones buried in a creek of clear water over which the life on the world ran, not touching them.” (page 13) “breath going in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came.” (page 13) “The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare” (page 13) “as he stood there the sky over the house screamed. The jet bombers going over, and another and another, did all the screaming for him.” (page 13-14) “One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well” (page 14) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “The impersonal operator of the machine could gaze into the soul of the person whom he was pumping out. He saw but did not see what the Eye saw.” (page 14) “The entire operation was not unlike the digging of a trench in one’s yard.” (page 14) “The woman on the bed was no more than a hard stratum of marble they had reached. Go on anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness” (page 14) “The operator stood smoking a cigarette” (page 15) “they stood with the cigarette smoke curling around their noses and into their eyes without making them blink or squint.” “We get these cases nine or ten a night. We gotta go. Just had another call…” (page 15) “There are too many of us. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!” (page 16) “If only someone else’s flesh and brain and memory. If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner’s and brought it back in the morning.” (page 16) “Laughter blew across the moon-colored lawn from the house of Clarisse and her father and mother and the uncle. Above all, their laughter was relaxed and hearty and not forced in any way, coming from the house that was so brightly lit this late at night while all the other houses were kept to themselves in darkness.” (page 17) “He stood outside the talking house in the shadows, thinking he might even tap on their door and whisper, ‘Let me come in. I just want to listen. What is it you’re saying?’” (page 17) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don’t even know the names?” (page 17) “‘I don’t know anything anymore,’ he said, and let a sleep lozenge dissolve on his tongue.” (page 18) “Toast popped out of the silver toaster, was seized by a spidery metal hand that drenched it with melted butter. Mildred watched the toast delivered to her plate.” (page 18) “She had both ears plugged with electronic bees that were humming the hour away.” (page 18) “She looked up suddenly, saw him, and nodded.” (page 18) “What would I want to go and do a silly thing like that for?” (page 20) “She was quite obviously waiting for him to go.” (page 20) “It’s only two thousand dollars, and I should think you’d consider me sometimes.” “We’re already doing without a few things to pay for the third wall. It was put in only two months ago” (page 20-21) “She smiled when she saw Montag.” (page 21) “What do you do, go around trying everything once?” “Sometimes twice” (page 21) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “‘I am, very much in love!’ He tried to conjure up a face to fit the words, but there was no face.” (page 22) “Oh, now I’ve upset you, I can see I have; I’m sorry, really I am” (page 22) “The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies.” (page 23) “And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times” (page 23) “You’re peculiar yourself, Mr Montag. Sometimes I even forget you’re a fireman.”(page 23) “Now, may I make you angry again?” (page 23) “You’re not like the others. I’ve seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. The others would walk off and leave me talking. You’re one of the few who put up with me. That’s why I think it’s so strange you’re a fireman. It just doesn’t seem right for you, somehow.” (page 23) “And then, very slowly, as he walked, he tilted his head back in the rain, for just a few moments, and opened his mouth…” (page 24) “The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live” (page 24) “The dim light touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast” (page 24) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “the creature that quivered gently, its eight legs spidered under it on rubber-padded paws.” (page 24) “It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that overrich nectar, and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.” (page 24) “Nights when things got dull, which was every night” (page 24) “gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine” (page 25) “The pawn was then tossed in the incinerator. A new game began.” (page 25) “the great shadowing, motioned silence of the Hound leaping out like a moth in the raw light, finding, holding its victim, inserting the needle” (page 25) “a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion. ‘No, no, boy,’ said Montag, his heart pounding. He saw the silver needle extend upon the air an inch, pull back. The growl simmered in the beast” (page 26) “Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multi-faceted eyes at peace.” (page 26) “It has a trajectory we decide on for it. It targets itself, homes itself, and cuts off.” (page 26) “But Montag did not move and only stood thinking of the ventilator grille in the hall at home and what lay hidden behind the grille. If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator then mightn’t they “tell” the Hound?...” (page 27) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “That’s sad, because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that’s all it can ever know.” (page 27) “It’s a fine bit of craftsmanship, a good rifle that can fetch its own target and guarantees the bull’s-eye every time.” (page 27) “That’s why I wouldn’t want to be its next victim.” “Why? You got a guilty conscience about something?” “Montag glanced up swiftly. Beatty stood there looking at him steadily with his eyes, while his mouth opened and began to laugh, very softly.” (page 28) “I feel I’ve known you so many years” “We know each other” (page 28) “I’m sorry. I really thought you were having fun at my expense. I’m a fool.” (page 29) “It’s been a long time since anyone cared enough to ask.” (page 29) “You always seem shocked.” “It’s just I haven’t had time” (page 29) “did you look at the stretched-out billboards like I told you?” “‘I think so. Yes.’ He had to laugh. ‘Your laugh sounds much nicer than it did. Much more relaxed.’ He felt at ease and comfortable.” (page 29) “I’m antisocial, they say. I don’t mix. It’s so strange. I’m very social indeed.” (page 29) “But I don’t think it’s social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk” (page 29) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “We never ask questions, or at least most don’t; they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film teacher. That’s not social at all.” (page 29) “them telling us it’s wine when it’s not” (page 30) “They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can’t do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes or wreck cars with the big steel ball.” (page 30) “Or go out in the cars and race on the streets, trying to see how close you can get to lamp-posts, playing ‘chicken’ and ‘knock hubcaps’” (page 30) “But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?” (page 30) “You sound so very old.” “Sometimes I’m ancient.” (page 30) “I’m afraid of children my own age. They kill each other. Six of my friends have been shot in the last year alone. Ten of them died in car wrecks. I’m afraid of them and they don’t like me because I’m afraid.” (page 30) “But most of all, I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they’re going.” (page 30) “when they race on the edge of town at midnight and the police don’t care as long as they’re insured. As long as everyone has ten thousand insurance everyone’s happy.” (page 30) why does the subway advertisement bother montag PasteShr why does the subway advertisement bother montag “People don’t talk about anything. They all say the same things and nobody says anything different from anyone else.” (page 31) “Your uncle must be a remarkable man.” (page 31) “Montag, I see you came in the back door this time. The Hound bother you?” (page 31) “at first he did not even know he missed her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him. His routine had been disturbed” (page 32) “At any moment, Beatty might rise and walk about him, touching, exploring his guilt and self-consciousness.” (page 33) “These men were all mirror images of himself!” (page 33) “They took him screaming off to the asylum.” “He wasn’t insane.” (page 33) “I’ve tried to imagine, just how it would feel, to have firemen burn our houses and our books.” “We haven’t any books.” “But if we did have some.” “You got some?” (page 34) “But in his mind, a cool wind started up and blew out of the ventilator grille at home. And, again, he saw himself in a green park talking to an old man” (page 34) “Fool, thought Montag to himself, you’ll give it away.” (page 34) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it for free? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “He opened his mouth and it was Clarisse McClellan saying, ‘Didn’t firemen prevent fires rather than stoke them up and get them going?’” “Below, the orange dragon coughed to life.” (page 35) “They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape.” (page 35) “He slapped her face with amazing objectivity” (page 36) “Swinging silver hatchets at doors that were, after all, unlocked” (page 36) “A book lit, almost obediently, like a white pigeon, in his hands, wings fluttering.” (page 37) “His hand had done it all, had turned thief. Now it plunged the book back under his arm, pressed it tight to sweating armpit” (page 38) “the books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry” (page 38) “None of these books agree with each other” (page 38) “Montag placed his hand on the woman’s elbow. ‘You can come with me.’ ‘Please.’ ‘Here.’” (page 39) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Captain Beatty, keeping his dignity, backed slowly through the front door” (page 39) “Always at night the alarm comes. Never by day! Is it because fire is prettier by night? More spectacle, a better show?” (page 39) “Montag felt the hidden book pound like a heart against his chest.” (page 39) “the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail.” (page 39) “People ran out of houses all down the street. “I’m full of bits and pieces. Most fire captains have to be. Sometimes I surprise myself.” (page 40) “He heard her roll impatiently” (page 41) “And his eyes were beginning to feel hunger, as if they must look at something, anything, everything.” (page 41) “He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.” (page 41) “She talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words” (page 42) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “a two year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.” (page 42) “he knew that when she pulled her hand away from his face it was wet.” (page 42) “There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again” (page 42) “Wasn’t there an old joke about the wife who talked so much on the telephone that her desperate husband ran out to the nearest store and telephoned her to ask what was for dinner?” (page 42) “And suddenly she was so strange he couldn’t believe he knew her at all. He was in someone else’s house” (page 42) “He knew she must be frowning in the dark.” (page 43) “Funny, how funny, not to remember when or when you met your husband’r wife. It doesn’t matter.” (page 43) “He tried to count how many times she swallowed” (page 43) “the Electronic-Eyed Snake winding down into the layer upon layer of night and stone and stagnant spring water” (page 43) “he wanted to call out to her, how many have you taken tonight! The capsules! How many will you take later and not know?” (page 43) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “her lying on the bed with the two technicians standing straight over her, not bent with concern, but only standing straight, arms folded.” (page 44) “And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn’t cry. For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image” (pgae 44) “a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.” (page 44) “How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?” (page 44) “the dandelion! It had summed up everything. ‘What a shame! You’re not in love with anyone!’” (page 44) “Wasn’t there a wall between him and Mildred? Literally not just one wall but three! And expensive, too!” (page 44) “the gibbering pack of tree apes that said nothing, nothing, nothing and said it loud, loud, loud.” (page 44) “the living room; what a good job of labeling that was now.” (page 44) “No matter when he came in, the walls were always talking to Mildred.” (page 44) “What was it all about? Mildred couldn’t say. Who was mad at whom? Mildred didn’t quite know. What were they going to do? Well, wait around and see.” (page 45) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Music bombarded him at such an immense volume that his bones were almost shaken from their tendons. You drowned in music and pure cacophony.” (page 45) “That’s all very well, but what are they mad about? Who are these people? Good God, nothing’s connected up.” (page 46) “When they stepped out of the car, she had the Seashells stuffed in her ears.” (page 46) “He could only pantomime, hoping she would turn his way and see him. They would not touch through the glass.” (page 47) “I meant to tell you. Forgot. Forgot. I forgot all about it.” (page 47) “The electric thimble moved like a praying mantis on the pillow. Now it was in her ear again, humming.” (page 48) “It was like a faint drift of greenish luminescent smoke. The Hound. It’s out there tonight. It’s out there now. If I opened the window…” (page 48) “He heard the “relatives” shouting in the parlor” (page 48) “her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, her flesh like white bacon” (page 48) “Will you turn the parlor off?” “That’s my family.” (page 49) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “She went out of the room and did nothing to the parlor and came back.” (page 49) “He pressed at the pain in his eyes and suddenly the odor of kerosene made him vomit.” (page 49) “Why’d you do that? It’s a good thing the rug’s washable.” (page 49) “A child feigning illness, afraid to call because after a moment’s discussion, the conversation would run so: ‘Yes, Captain, I feel better already. I’ll be in at ten o’clock tonight.’” (page 50) “Mildred, how would it be if, I quit my job awhile?” (page 51) “She’s nothing to me; she shouldn’t have had books. It was her responsibility. I hate her.” (page 51) “There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house” (page 51) “You ever seen a burnt house? It smolders for days. Well, this fire’ll last me the rest of my life. I’ve been trying to put it out, in my mind, all night. I’m crazy with trying.” (page 51) “It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! It’s all over.” (page 52) “Let me alone. I didn’t do anything.” (page 52) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “How can I leave myself alone? We need not be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while.” (page 52) “How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?” (page 52) “Tell him yourself!” “She ran a few steps this way, a few steps that, and stopped, eyes wide, when the front door speaker called her name” (page 53) “Shut the ‘relatives’ up” “This time, Mildred ran. The yammering voices stopped yelling the parlor.” (page 53) “Captain Beatty sat down in the most comfortable chair with a peaceful look on his ruddy face.” (page 53) “I’ve seen it all. You were going to call for a night off.” (page 53) “Tomorrow. The next day maybe. First of the week.” (page 53) “Films and radios, magazines, books leveled down to a sort of pastepudding norm. Books cut shorter. Condensations. Digests. Tabloids. Everything boils down to the gag, the snap ending. ” (page 54) “Classics cut to fit fifteen-minute radio shows, then cut again to fill a two-minute book column, winding up at last as a ten- or twelve-line dictionary resume.” (page 54) “Out of the nursery into the college and back to the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.” (page 55) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to dowload it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Whirl man’s mind around about so fast under the pumping hands of publishers, exploiters, broadcasters that the centrifuge flings off all unnecessary, time-wasting thought!” (page 55) “School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work.” (page 55) “Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?” (page 56) “The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour.” (page 56) “‘for God’s sake, let me be!’ cried Montag passionately. Beatty opened his eyes wide.” (page 56) “‘What’s this here?’ ‘Sit down!’ Montag shouted. Beatty went on as if nothing had happened.” (page 56) “More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don’t have to think, eh?” (page 57) “More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less. Impatience.” (page 57) “Don’t step on the toes of the dog lovers, the cat lovers, doctors, lawyers. The bigger your market, the less you handle controversy.” (page 57) “but the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic books survive. And the three-dimensional sex magazines, of course.” (page 58) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it for free? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick. Today, thanks to them, you can stay happy all the time.” (page 58) “With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, the word ‘intellectual’ became the swear word it deserved to be.” (page 58) “And wasn’t it this bright boy you selected for beatings and tortures after hours? Of course it was. We must be alike. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.” (page 58) “Firemen were given the new job, as custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior” (page 59)s “Our civilization is so vast that we can’t have our minorities upset and stirred.” (page 59) “People want to be happy, isn’t that right? I That’s all we live for, isn’t it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.” (page 59) “He tried not to look at her mouth, because then Beatty might turn and read what was there, too.” (page 59) “Someone’s written a book on tobacco and cancer of the lungs? The cigarette people are weeping? Burn the book. Funerals are unhappy and pagan? Eliminate them too.” (page 60) “Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.” (page 60) “She didn’t want to know how a thing was done, but why. You ask why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl’s better off dead.” (page 60) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it for free? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “If the government is inefficient, topheavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it.” (page 61) “But I don’t care. I just like solid entertainment.” (page 61) “We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought.” (page 62) “Montag still sat, as if the house were collapsing about him and he could not move, in the bed.” (page 62) “I’ve had to read a few in my time, to know what I was about, and the books say nothing! Nothing you can teach or believe.” (page 62) “will we see you tonight perhaps?” “I don’t know.” “I’ll never come in again, thought Montag.” (page 63) “They didn’t want people sitting like that, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had the time to think. So they ran off with the porches.” (page 63) “It’s only a step from not going to work today to not working tomorrow, to not working at the firehouse ever again.” (page 64) “It’s fun out in the country. You hit rabbits, sometimes you hit dogs.” (page 64) “I’m so damned unhappy, I’m so mad, and I don’t know why. I might even start reading books.” (page 64) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “I’m going to do something big.” “‘I’m tired of listening to this junk, said Mildred, turning from him to the announcer again.” (page 65) “moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book. He kept moving his hand and dropping books” (page 65) “Mildred backed away as if she were suddenly confronted by a pack of mice that had come up out of the floor. He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide.” (page 66) “Then, moaning, she ran forward, seized a book, and ran toward the kitchen incinerator.” (page 66) “We can’t burn these. I want to look at them, at least look at them once.” (page 66) “we’ve got to start somewhere here, figuring out why we’re in such a mess.” (page 66) “Her foot touched a book and she saw this and pulled her foot away.” (page 67) “I talked to her. And men like Beatty are afraid of her. Why should they be so afraid of someone like her?” (page 67) “I suddenly realized I didn’t like them at all, and I didn’t like myself at all any more.” (page 67) “And I thought maybe it would be best if the firemen themselves were burnt.” (page 67) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “He was shivering and he wanted above all to shove the books up through the ventilator again, but he knew he could not face Beatty again.” (page 68) “He’ll come in and burn us and the books!” (page 68) “What does it mean? It doesn’t mean anything! The Captain was right!” (page 68) “the parlor was dead and Mildred kept peering in at it with a blank expression” (page 71) “She’s dead. Let’s talk about someone alive, for goodness’ sake.” (page 72) “That favourite subject Myself.” I understand that one.” (page 72) “But Clarisse’s favorite subject wasn’t herself. It was everyone else, and me.” (page 72) “these men have been dead a long time, but I know their words point, one way or another, to Clarisse.” (page 72) “Under the doorsill, a slow, probing sniff, an exhalation of electric steam.” (page 72) “Books aren’t people. You read and I look all around, but there isn’t anybody!” (page 73) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “My ‘family’ is people. They tell me things: I laugh, they laugh! And the colors!” (page 73) “He might come and burn the house and ‘the family’. That’s awful! Why should I read? What for?” (page 73) “I saw the damnedest snake in the world the other night. It was dead but it was alive. It could see but it couldn’t see.” (page 73) “Would you like to go to that house that burnt last night? And rake ashes for the bones of the woman who set fire to her own house!” (page 73) “What about Clarisse McClellan, where do we look for her? The morgue! Listen!” (page 73) “How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn’t someone want to talk about it!” (page 73) “Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the world?” (page 73) “Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are?” (page 73) “Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes!” (page 74) “I don’t hear those idiot bastards in your parlor talking about it.” (page 74) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “The old man admitted to being a retired English Professor” (page 74) “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things. I sit here and know I’m alive.” (page 75) “For your file, in case you decide to be angry with me.” “‘I’m not angry,’ Montag said, surprised.” (page 75) “This is some sort of trap! I can’t talk to just anyone on the phone!” (page 76) “This is the Old and New Testament, and…” “Don’t start that again!” “See what you’re doing? You’ll ruin us! Who’s more important, me or that bible?” (page 76) “There sat Beatty, perspiring gently, the floor littered with swarms of black moths that had died in a single storm.” (page 77) “The street and the lawn and the porch were empty. He let his breath go in a great sigh.” (page 77) The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium and brass.” (page 79) “I haven’t done anything!” “I’m alone, dammit!” (page 80) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “faber peered out, looking very old in the light and very fragile and very much afraid.” (page 80) “In that room a litter of machinery and steel tools were strewn upon a desktop.” (page 81) “all saccharine when he isn’t making veiled references to certain commercial products that every worshipper absolutely needs.” (page 81) “Montag, you’re looking at a coward. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty’, but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.” (page 82) “And when finally they set the structure to burn the books, using the firemen, I grunted a few times and subsided, for there were no others grunting or yelling with me, by then. Now it’s too late.” (page 82) “Nobody listens any more. I can’t talk to the walls because they are yelling at me. I can’t talk to my wife; she listens to the walls.” (page 82) “I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.” (page 82) “The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.” (page 83) “We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of growing on good rain and black loam.” (page 83) “If you’re not driving a hundred a miles an hour, at a clip where you can’t think of anything else but the danger, then you’re playing some game or sitting in some room where you can’t argue wit hthe four-wall televisor.” (page 84) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “It tells you what to think and blasts it in. It rushes you on so quickly to its own conclusions your mind hasn’t time to protest, ‘What nonsense!’” (page 84) “That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you can run any risk you want.” (page 85) “Not if you start talking the sort of talk that might get me burnt for my trouble.” (page 85) “The only way I could possibly listen to you would be if somehow the fireman structure itself could be burnt.” (page 85) “Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore.” (page 86) “there are many actors alone who haven’t acted for years because their plays are too aware of the world.” (page 87) “the public itself stopped reading of its own accord.” (page 87) “You firemen provide a circus now and then at which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze” (page 87) “So few want to be rebels any more. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.” (page 87) “Can you dance faster than the White Clown, shout louder than ‘Mr. Gimmick’ and the parlor ‘families’?” (page 87) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to use it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Patience, Montag.” (page 87) “Let the war turn off the ‘families’. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” (page 87) “His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book.” (page 88) “What do you want?” “I need you to teach me.” (page 88) “I came to class at the start of the new semester and found only one student to sign up for Drama from Aeschylus to O’Neill.” (page 89) “I remember the newspapers dying like huge moths. No one wanted them back. No one missed them.” (page 89) “He’s read enough so he has all the answers, or seems to have.” (page 89) “His voice is like butter. I’m afraid he’ll talk me back the way I was.” (page 89) “Only a week ago, pumping a kerosene hose, I thought: God, what fun!” (page 89) “Can you help me in any way tonight, with the Fire Captain? I need an umbrella to keep off the rain.” (page 89) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it for free? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can hear and analyze the firemen’s world, find its weaknesses, without danger.” (page 90) “I’m the Queen Bee, safe in the hive. You will be the drone, the traveling ear.” (page 90) “If the drones die, I’m still safe at home, tending my fright with a maximum of comfort and a minimum of chance.” (page 91) “Let’s listen to this Captain Beatty together. I’ll give you things to say. We’ll give him a good show.” (page 91) “Here I am sending you out into the night, while I stay behind the lines with my damned ears listening for you to get your head chopped off.” (page 91) “I’ll be with you the rest of the night, a vinegar gnat tickling your ear when you need me.” (page 91) “He had visited the bank, which was open all night every night with robot tellers in attendance” (page 92) “Ten million men mobilized. But say one million. It’s happier.” (page 92) “You’ll have to travel blind for a while. Here’s my arm to hold onto.” (page 92) “I don’t want to change sides and just be told what to do. There’s no reason to change if I do that.” (page 92) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “And now they were screaming at each other above the din.” (page 93) “How does she do both at once? Thought Montag, insanely.” (page 93) “A minute later, three White Cartoon Clowns chopped off each other’s limbs to the accompaniment of immense incoming tides of laughter.” (page 94) “Two minutes more and the room whipped out of town to the jet cars wildly circling an arena. Montag saw a number of bodies fly in the air.” (page 94) “The three women turned slowly and looked with unconcealed irritation and then dislike at Montag. The three women fidgeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-colored walls.” (page 94) “I’ll let Pete do all the worrying. Not me. I’m not worried.” (page 94) “It’s always someone else’s husband dies, they say. I’ve never known any dead man killed in a war.” (page 94) “Did you see that Clara Dove five-minute romance last night in your wall?” (page 95) “The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time” (page 95) “But there was nothing, nothing; it was a stroll through another store, and his currency strange and unusable there” (page 95) why does the subway advertisement bother montag PasteShr why does the subway advertisement bother montag “You heave them into the ‘parlor’ and turn the switch. It’s like washing clothes.” (page 96) “They’d just as soon kick as kiss me. Thank God, I can kick back!” (page 96) “I think he’s one of the nicest-looking men ever became president.” (page 96) “He wasn’t much, was he? Kind of small and homely and he didn’t shave too close or comb his hair very well.” (page 97) “Even their names helped. Compare Winston Noble and Hubert Hoag for ten seconds and you can almost figure the results.” (page 97) “Damn it! What do you know about Hoag and Noble!” (page 97) “Oh god, the way they jabber about people and their own children, dammit, I stand here and I can’t believe it!” (page 98) “As for poetry, I hate it.” (page 98) “You’ll ruin everything. Shut up, you fool! In the name of God, what’re you up to?” (page 98) “What good is this, what’ll you prove!” “Scare hell out of them, that’s what, scare the living daylights out!” (page 98) why does the subway advertisement bother montag PasteShr why does the subway advertisement bother montag “so none of us will ever have to bother our little old heads about that junk again, isn’t that right, darling?” (page 99) “I’ve always said poetry and tears, poetry and awful feelings. Now I’ve had it proved to me.” (page 101) “Not enough hurt in the world, you got to tease people with stuff like that!” (page 101) “Go home and think of your first husband divorce and your second husband killed in a jet and your third husband blowing his brains out” (page 101) “Go home and think of the dozen abortions you’ve had, your damn Caesarian sections, and your children who hate your guts!” (page 101) “Go home and think how it all happened and what did you ever do to stop it? Go home, go home!” (page 101) “He heard Mildred shake the sleeping tablets into her hand.” (page 101) “he knew that she had started on her own slow process of dispersing the dynamite in her house, stick by stick.” (page 102) “On his way to work, he tried not to see how completely dark and deserted Clarisse McClellan’s house was.” (page 102) “he was so completely alone with his terrible error that he felt the necessity for the warmness that came from a familiar and gentle voice speaking in the night.” (page 102) why does the subway advertisement bother montag How to get it for free? why does the subway advertisement bother montag “Already, in a few short hours, it seemed that he had known Faber a lifetime.” (page 102) “He knew that he was also the old man who talked to him. The old man would go on with this talking.” (page 103) “He would not be Montag any more, the old man told him, assured him, promised him. He would be Montag-plus-Faber, fire plus water, and then one day, there would be wine” (page 103) “And one day he would look back upon the fool and know the fool.” (page 103) why does the subway advertisement bother montag