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  • Ray Bardbury
  • Dec 23, 1951
  • 1 min read

Pulverized- reduced to fine particles; maimed, destroyed, or crushed.

"He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the Earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow."

  • Page 11 in Fahrenheit 451


 
 
 

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