If you’ve read Ray Bradbury’s novel or seen Truffaut’s film, you will know that 451 degrees Fahrenheit is the temperature at which books burn.
Truffaut’s 1966 film is now being remade, though why I don’t know - it's a classic about a dystopian future where firemen start fires in order to burn books, which have been made illegal, as a way of controlling free thought.
It appears the pointless Lambeth Lib Dems are trying to audition for roles in the pointless movie remake.
They have controversially endorsed a scheme to destroy the beautiful architecture of Streatham Library, a building with a fine classical frontage which has served the people of Streatham since it opened in 1890, funded by a combination of the rates and a generous gift from the sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, Streatham resident and the man behind the Tate Galleries.
The Streatham Post has reported the Lib Dem leader behaving with all the finesse of a wrecking ball.
“Streatham Library must be demolished” he said, and “urged residents to put their emotions aside.”
As Guy Montag, the central character of book and film says: “It's a job just like any other. Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto.”
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