silver

I'm glad I liked it too. The pleasure of unexpected insights are among the reason I keep at LJ/DW. And though our interests don't always intersect, your posts are among those I've most looked forward to since you showed up.

But I fear to make you blush. Onwards.

I tried searching for what I had thought was the Bradbury quote, but the closest I could locate via Youtube suggests a much more general inspiration that what I remembered. Namely, book burnings in particular. In an interview from 2007 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aKItfLeso4), Bradbury sites Nazi book-burnings in the streets, more quite Soviet burnings (and author burning, he said) as well as things like the Library at Alexandria going up in flames.

If the author himself is anything to go by, he wasn't taking aim at any specific contemporary political events, but was more expressing a visceral horror of the destruction of knowledge and the physical fact of libraries.