• Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    About that… we could record someone’s every word and different people would read entirely different things into it. Consider how strangers have reacted to your own internet comments.

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      1 year ago

      Ray Bradbury famously directly told people they were interpreting Fahrenheit 451 wrong while he was alive and they still didn’t believe it

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        1 year ago

        Bradbury just complained that people were gonna stop buying his books. He gripes in multiple books that people dont read anymore since that’s how he made money.