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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
A Warning
Well-heeded and worthy,
from one of my literary masters:
“You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture.
Just get people to stop reading them.”
– Ray Bradbury
Does the Internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc, etc, etc, count?
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