After seeing the kinds of works the students from the class made with their destroyed copies of books, I must say I’m impressed. Their ideas were very creative, and I was pleased to see more methods of destruction than simply burning. Their resistance to the superficial beauty of the flame fills me with great hope for the members of their society, and I think I can faithfully trust they will never suffer the same apocalypse as the people from my city. I am inspired by their creativity, thoughtfulness, and severity with the subject. My only request, however, is that they each vow to never destroy another book again. Unless its one of those “Wreck this Journal” books, which I hear is quite ironic…–Clarisse McClellan