Fahrenheit 451
In Fahrenheit 451, what does it mean when Montag says, "you never wash it (kerosene) off completely"?
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Ther is of course the smell of kerosene which always lingers but there is the metaphor of what karosene represents: the destruction of words and ideas. Montag can't get it out of his mind.