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“Books are useless. We fireman are the happy boys. We bring happiness and fun in the minorities just like wanted. We make fun parks happen, to allow teen to have fun the way they want. Teens like to beat up and kill people so give them what they want. We allow grown men and women to watch their parlor walls for hours and they, the people on the parlor walls, became their relatives. The only thing that stops them from happiness is books so we set fire to every book we see by using kerosene to burn them so no has to deal with this discussing unpleasant boring books. Without us they can’t have the happiness they want we bring them happiness therefore we are the happy boys.”

Montog -

“Why people like my own wife sit down for hours mindlessly

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