Knowledge

Libraries and librarians are currently acting as soldiers to the onslaught of increasing calls to ban books with LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC subject matter. The keepers of knowledge sometimes the sole guard of the freedom to know, to be known, and to be heard. This piece pays homage to these sentinels and the rage at the growing tide of hate and vitriol of our society. 808.068 is the Dewey decimal for the book Fahrenheit 451.