Watch Margaret Atwood take a flamethrower to an unburnable copy of The Handmaid's Tale

[garethb2]

Originally published at: Watch Margaret Atwood take a flamethrower to an unburnable copy of The Handmaid's Tale | Boing Boing

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[Michael_Jason_K]

i wonder what Ray Bradbury would think…

[Otherbrother]

As I mentioned in another thread, this is a cool idea but the page material is aluminum-based and probably melts at about 660 degrees C. A bonfire can easily reach 900 degrees C. So don’t go throwing this on a big pile at a book-burning event and expect it to make it unscathed.

[Papasan]

More of this please. Atwood is as badass as they come.

[buck]

Support of free expression except for students naming those who have behaved inappropriately toward them

[zuludaddy]

Seriously? Now?

All heroes have feet of clay. Now is hardly the time to ride the Purity Pony.

In my opinion.

[bluehenbear]

I hope they didn’t get that “flame thrower” from Elon.

[Brainspore]

@Otherbrother

this is a cool idea but the page material is aluminum-based and probably melts at about 660 degrees C.

Fahrenheit One-Thousand-Two-Hundred-Twenty isn’t really a title that rolls off the tongue.

[Papasan]

Litmus tests as a rule often reveal impurity of some kind, I prefer to step back and take a wider look at a person and their travails in life, giving a more clear picture to better make ones mind up. Squeaky clean humans are not necessarily the best authors, even if such a thing does exist, it’s the flawed authors/ones that have been on both sides of the life’s fence that give a greater observation of a topic.

[FGD135]

That he got the flashpoint of paper wrong back then?

[Mister44]

That is pretty cool.

Can someone explain what “black Cinefoil dust jacket and white heat shield foil pages,” is?

[mns]

Yeah, but materials selection is still pretty damn cool.

[smulder]

@zuludaddy

Now is hardly the time to ride the Purity Pony

[RickMycroft]

Favourite moment: When Doug Ford thought she was complimenting him.

“These are not stupid people,” she said. “Don’t make the mistake of thinking that the Fords are stupid. They’re not stupid. So given that they’re not stupid, they will think this through.”

Atwood on Ford fight: ‘I don’t need it’

[Richard_Kirk]

This is all a bit silly. I don’t see any real sign in the video that the book is getting hot. However, I must say Ripley - whoops, sorry - Atwood looks good with one of those.