fahrenheit 451 beatty fill their head with trivia quote

They run us so ragged by the end of the day we can't do anything but go to bed or head for a Fun Park to bully people around, break windowpanes in the Window Smasher place or wreck cars in the Car Wrecker place with the big steel ball.

It's a lot of funnels and lot of water poured down the spout and out the bottom, and them telling us it's wine when it's not. But I don't think it's social to get a bunch of people together and then not let them talk, do you? An hour of TV class, an hour of basketball or baseball or running, another hour of transcription history or painting pictures, and more sports, but do you know, we never ask questions, or at least most don't they just run the answers at you, bing, bing, bing, and us sitting there for four more hours of film-teacher. 'Or talking about how strange the world is. It all depends on what you mean by social, doesn't it? Social to me means talking to you about things like this.' She rattled some chestnuts that had fallen off the tree in the front yard. “Why aren't you in school? I see you every day wandering around.'

Fahrenheit 451 beatty fill their head with trivia quote