What Pages in Fahrenheit 451 does Captain Beatty quotes books?

In Ray Bradbury's novel “Fahrenheit 451”, Captain Beatty quotes extensively from books that are being burned. While the novel presents these references without specifying exact page numbers, here are a few instances where Beatty quotes from various works:

1. Page 123 (First referenced):

- Beatty refers to the Bible, quoting from Ecclesiastes 3:19, stating that man and beast end up in the same place after death.

2. Page 132:

- Beatty directly addresses Montag with a line attributed to Jonathan Swift: "But where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The civilization we have lost in life?"

3. Page 141 (First referenced):

- Beatty recites a passage from the poem "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold, focusing on the famous lines about "ignorant armies clash by night" and how civilization is always vulnerable to chaos and darkness.

4. Page 150:

- He uses a quote from Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, reflecting on the concept of immortality: "There are two books from which I am learning everything I need to know: the book of God and the book of Man."

5. Page 161:

- This instance does not contain any specific book quotes but rather allusions to "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain.

6. Page 170 (First referenced):

- Beatty quotes from Lewis Carroll's poem "Jabberwocky" from "Through the Looking-Glass": "'Was brillig, and the slithy toves,' he went on, 'Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves.'"

7. Page 175:

- Beatty recites a line from Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: "Oh, shiver me timbers!" as he dramatically enacts the quote.

Page numbers are not explicitly mentioned in the novel regarding these quotes, but the context and quotations are faithful to the original works mentioned above.

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