Fahrenheit 451 Page 90-100 NOTES

• " It looks like a seashell radio."                                                                                                           "And something more! It listens! If you put it in your ear, Montag, I can sit comfortably at home, warming my frightened bones, and hear and analyze the firemen's world, find its weaknesses without danger" (Page 90) Faber admits to Montag that he's been spending his years hidden away in his house, waiting for someone to talk to him and he knew that day when Montage sat with him in the park that he would bring either fire or friendship. Faber created a listening device like he somehow foresaw this happening, ready to listen  in on the world of firemen and develop a plan with Montag's help. page 90
• Almost getting caught by Mildred's friends, he pretends that once a year Firemen are allowed to bring home one book to mock. He reads Dover Beach to the ladies. The poem made Mrs.Phelps cry  "I've always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that much! I've had it proved to me. You're nasty, Mr.Montag, you're nasty!" page 101 Mrs.Phelps is actually very moved by the poem, that's why she's crying but they connect it to bad feelings because reading is a nasty act. And poetry is the biggest joke of them all.