Celsius 233

Come Truffaut's firemen
Burn me among serried tomes
Old mad bookish man



Of course I thought about using Bradbury in the first line but Ray suffers from toomanysyllablitis, a terminal affliction to be avoided by haikuists.


And I love both works; and both endings, though I oscillate between preferring Bradbury's reaping the worldwind and Truffaut's nuanced and tantalising fade-to-mist.


Now, if only I could afford to have a second wall screen installed...