What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness?
Let them be left, O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.
-- Gerard Manley Hopkins
Monday, June 18, 2007
assisting English majors nationwide
It doesn't often happen that the author of a famous book actually says what the book is really about. We should listen when they tell us. Of course many don't, but in a way that's what remains compelling about some books--even the authors themselves cannot enforce a particular meaning on the reader. At any rate, Ray Bradbury, who recently won a Pulitzer, has refreshingly told the world that Farenheit 451 is not what you thought it is about.