FAHRENHEIT 451 Quote Puzzle
Across
- 2. "They turned, their faces like blanched meat, streaming sweat; he beat their heads; knocking off their helmets and bringing them down on themselves."
- 3. "There's a Phoenix car just drove up and a man in a black shirt with an orange snake stitched on his arm coming up the front walk."
- 10. "He hung up his black beetle-colored helmet and shined it; he hung his flameproof jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole."
- 12. "The little mosquito-delicate dancing hum in the air, the electrical murmur of a hidden wasp in its special pink warm nest."
- 14. Who says? "I'm seventeen now and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together."
- 16. "One of them slid down your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there."
- 17. "... the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence and the orange ______ slept with its kerosene in its belly and the fire throwers crossed upon its flanks . . ."
- 18. "Her face was like a snow-covered island upon which rain might fall, but it felt no rain; over which clouds might pass their moving shadows, but she felt no shadow."
Down
- 1. "It was not a burning, it was a warming."
- 4. "It'll be even more fun when we can afford to have the fourth-wall installed."
- 5. "________slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in the dark corner of the fire house."
- 6. "________ leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."
- 7. "The family moved out anyway."
- 8. Who says? "It was a pleasure to burn."
- 9. " . . . the five old men sitting there dressed in dark blue denim pants and jackets and dark blue shirts."
- 11. Who says? "We're book burners, too. We read the books and burnt them, afraid the'd be found."
- 13. "Montag made sure the _____ was well hidden behind the pillow . . ."
- 15. Who says? "Come along. I would actually have let you walk right out of my house. I am a cowardly old fool."