Did the teacher who assigned Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 smirk, just a little, when assigning this book for summer reading for Obie Joe's second son?
While discussing the advent of Montag's shift from book burning to book saving, said son, snapped up his neck and exclaimed, "Wow. It's like Bradbury is talking about how we're all about entertainment and fun and not about ideas."
Yep. Although there is the second irony that the teacher had to force a student to set down the world of warcraft game long enough to arrive at this insight.
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