“It was a pleasure to burn.”

2009年，撕下一本《華氏四五一》（Fahrenheit 451）的首頁，然後燒掉其餘部分，留下灰燼。

“It was a pleasure to burn.
It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see
things blackened and changed.”

近年不時想起《華氏四五一》的情節，例如讀到姜峯楠（Ted Chiang）的 Why A.I. Isn't Going to Make Art 這句：

“We are entering an era where someone might use a large language model to generate a document out of a bulleted list, and send it to a person who will use a large language model to condense that document into a bulleted list. Can anyone seriously argue that this is an improvement?”

我想起書中主角 Guy Montag 上司、消防隊長 Beatty 的話：