Juana de Asbaje aka Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz is a good word.

Speaking of muses-

"The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it; and therefore his shipmates called him mad. So man's insanity is heaven's sense' and wandering from all mortal reason, man comes at last to that celestial thought, which, to reason, is absurd and frantic; and weal or woe, feels then uncompromised, indifferent as his God."

--MOBY DICK
When Melville wrote this, was he Bible inspired or muse inspired?

Back into the question:

quote:

"Stoneman and Black drew forth their rulebooks, which also contained brief histories of the Firemen of America, and laid them out where Montag, though long familiar with them, might READ:

Established, 1790, to burn English-influenced books in the Colonies. First Fireman: Benjamin Franklin."

So, people can read manuals or comic books, but BAD books like those from people like Hemigway, Poe are not permitted.

Best regards!

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Phil Knox~

Likely Christian. Since Herman Melville was essentially brought up by his mother, who was a Christian, and it has been written that Melville was deeply influenced by his mother's reading of the stories from the Bible. Also, later in life Melville bought a farm near the home of Nathaniel Hawthorne and became close friends with Hawthorne starting with the writing of Moby Dick. Hawthorne was raised a Puritan and considered himself a Christian. Perhaps some of the faith Hawthorne had influenced Melville. The faith of Hawthorne:

http://www.apuritansmind.com/TULIP/TULIP.htm

Johnny Holly~
Thanks! Popular reading of 'Fahrenheit 451' has many readers with the idea that banning any book for any reason is wrong. Some of the founding fathers of the United States would heartily disagree! For instance, John Adams reasoned that only true freedom of the press was for those who had the moral decency and intelligence to use the press 'wisely'.

No one said Ray Bradbury wasn't complicated!