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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months 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.