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3 months ago

“Play the man, Master Ridley…”

It was a pleasure to burn. Fahrenheit 451 It was a novel about censorship, “Do you ever read any of the books you burn?” men with matches. Burning. flame, burning. Burn the book. burning and burning. blazing and burning Burning. “Fire!” everything burned! stop making the goddamn funeral pyres put out the fire. stop burning. “You can never have my books,” she said.

What is fire? “What is there about fire that’s so lovely? book-burning he built a pyre and burned the flame he was a shrieking blaze, he burnt himself up desecration, execution, in a gorging fire Nothingness. out of the ashes to burn the author turned dark with burning paper combusts blackened and changed. What did you give to the city, Montag? Ashes. rake ashes for the bones What did the others give to each other? Montag only said, “We never burned right…”

“It Was A Pleasure to Burn” by Sunny (me!)

A defiled and half-burned corpse, featuring poems made from the scraps of words on both the front and back. I could feel the book die as i burned it and it was a truly devastating but necessary experience for the piece. I actually made this piece in 2023, and it scares me how it’s becoming more and more relevant. Protect your books at all costs. Defend them with everything you’ve got. You won’t know just how valuable they are until you have been stripped of them.

Water color, colored pencil and flame on Ray Bradbury’s “Farenheit 451” 60th anniversary edition