As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us. - William Golding

Lok was running as fast as he could. His head was down and he carried his thorn bush horizontally for balance and smacked the drifts of vivid buds aside with his free hand.

"We think we know."
"Know? That's worse than an atom bomb, and always was."

Perhaps the various burnings of the Alexandria Library were necessary, like those Australian Forest Fires without which the new seeds cannot burst their shells and make a young, healthy forest.