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a result of something (often an undesired side effect)
- Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. A problem gets too burdensome, then into the furnace with it. Now, Montag, you're a burden. And fire will lift you off my shoulders, clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later.p. 109.5
consequences = undesired effects
(editor's note: Beatty says this just before Montag incinerates him.)
(editor's note: Beatty says this just before Montag incinerates him.)
- For everyone nowadays knows, absolutely is certain, that nothing will ever happen to me. Others die, I go on. There are no consequences and no responsibilities. Except that there are.p. 109.0
- By the time the consequences catch up with you, it's too late, isn't it, Montag?p. 109.1
consequences = undesired effects
consequences = unintended results of prior actions
There are no more uses of "consequence" in Fahrenheit 451.
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