
527. A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr. Book Club (with Matthew Kressel, Lisa Yaszek, Joseph Reisert)
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The Mormons and the Dark Ages
Fahrenheit 451 was published what like couple years after Fahrenheit 451 and so the idea of these book lagers who memorize books and preserve them seems to me pretty likely to have been influenced by that. And then I also just wanted to mention the book of the new son by Jean Wolf, which is another work written by a zealous you know recent convert to Catholicism. And this also deals with sort ofyou know the collapse of civilization and collapse and rise of civilization over ages but yes sorry we said go ahead.
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