The Spark of Ignorance. Jessica Gaudi Cowan CS3
“Where books are burned, so too will human beings be burned.�
“The book fires are not part of the city’s memory. They’re happening now so this burning of books isn’t taking place in some distant past or in secret. Nor is it some fictional nightmare thought up by some apocalyptic. It’s not a novel. […] This is why the fire progresses slowly, because it has to overcome resistance.”
“...but it’s impossible to understand the mystery of hate. The kind of hate that causes people to not only to kill but want to erase you from the census of births… [He] was a symbol of The Republic and now he is a crater.”
“‘On the Fertilisation of Orchids by Insects by Charles Darwin’ [The Falangelist] sniffs three times as he reads. Fertilisation? Orchids? Insects? Somethings not quite right. Something bothers him. The idea of orchids being fertilised by insects. ‘That’s disgusting!’ He drops the book in the fire, fucking insects, orchid whores, spits and starts moving faster, using his jokes as a kind of manual lever.”
“Where are the readers of books? Why are they taking so long?�
“¡Abajo la intelligence! (Down with intelligence!) ”