Faber has a 3-principle response for Montag when Montag asks
about what is in these books that is so valuable, so forbidden that people would go to such
extremes as to extinguish them.
Faber says that books
have quality of detail. This is that ability to make us think and
feel and experience and relate. Next, reading books requires the "leisure
to digest" them. So many students read to get to the end of the reading
assignment. Faber insists that reading is so much more than that. Sometimes this takes time and
the ability to relax so you actually can think about what you're reading and process it. Finally,
a reader needs to be able to act upon what they read. If not brave
enough or able to act upon what has been read after thought about and processed, what is the
written word worth? If it's mystery is not going to be discovered, why read it in the first
place? The ability to carry out action based on what was learned was easy for Faber to talk
about, but ironically, it was difficult for him to carry out.
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