11-17-14

Dear Montag,

         I don't understand your recent obsession with books. Maybe that girl you have been talking to has gotten wired and twisted in your mind. I was once like you, curious, excited, felt that there was something beyond my control. I wanted more and thought I could keep quite about it. Just look at the Woman on Elm Street. She thought that she could just walk on water with her books.  The truth is no. Everyone must be equal and ill be damned if you try and change it.            
       I sent the hound around your place. Should of gotten the hint when you saw his beaming green eyes. I burn books with a fiery vengeance,  I claim to hate them, yet I quote them almost like a passion. Literature is contradictory. It is confusing. It is treacherous. It will force you to answer the questions that you never wanted to ask.  Soon you will learn his lesson and follow the law. Maybe the recent alarm at the firehouse will catch you as a surprise.  I don't mean to play the devils advocate but what you are doing is not right. So go ahead Montag, I dare you, read the books and see what happens. Go against the law.    

Yours truly,

 Captain Beatty