They rounded a corner in thunder and siren, with concussion of tires, with scream of rubber with a shift of kerosene bulk in the glittery brass tank, like the food in the stomach of a giant, with Montag's fingers jolting off the silver rail, swinging into cold space, with the wind tearing his hair back from his head, with the wind whistling in his teeth, and him all the while thinking of the women, the chaff women in his parlor tonight, with the kernels blown out from under them by a neon wind, and his silly damned reading of a book to them.
على كل إنسان أن يترك شيئا خلفه عندما يموت ، عليه أن يترك خلفه طفلا أو كتابا أو لوحة أو منزلا أو جدارا مبنيا أو زوج أحذية من صنعه أو حديقة مزروعة شيئا ما ، لامسته يدك بطريقة معينة . بحيث يكون لروحك مكان تذهب إليه عندما تموت . و عندما ينظر الناس إلى الشجرة أو الزهرة التي زرعتها تكون أنت موجودا هناك .لا يهم ما تفعل ما دمت تغير شيئا ما عما كان قبل أن تلمسه و تحوله إلى شيء يشبهك بعد أن ترفع يديك عنه .
What is there about fire that's so lovely? Not matter what age we are, what draws us to it? It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. Or almost perpetual motion. If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It's a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledegook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical.