Ray Bradbury Speaks Out Against Closing Library
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The Associated Press
Article Launched: 09/07/2008 03:28:17 PM PDT
LONG BEACH—The City Council’s budget oversight committee dropped its proposal this week to close Long Beach’s 84-year-old main library. Could its members have heard that the 88-year-old author of “Fahrenheit 451″ was on his way to town to make things warm for them if they didn’t?
“Without libraries, we have no true education,” Ray Bradbury told some 300 people at Long Beach’s main library on Saturday, a day after the budget oversight committee recommended instead that the library be closed only on Sundays and Mondays. The full City Council must still take up the measure.
On Saturday Bradbury reminded his listeners of how he wrote the first draft of “Fahrenheit 451″ on a typewriter that rented for 10 cents a half hour in the basement of a library at the University of California, Los Angeles. The novel, published in 1951, envisions a future in which books are burned to keep people in ignorance.
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