“A pleasure to burn” (page 3)
To consume and to destroy
Fiery books like “flapping” pigeons, (page 3)
“ignite[d]” by ignorance (page 3)
Knowledge replaced by factoids
Literature replaced by bright, shimmering “parlor walls” (page 9)
“Torrent[s]” of information and media (page 82)
Because “books say nothing,” (page 62)
there is no epitaph for Gulliver’s Travels
Books are “hated and feared” (page 83)
And why?
Because Man has no desire for “drear philosophy” (page 62)
So relentless censorship,
a “mechanical hound,” (page 102)
hunts down those who trespass into thought