Brief rumination on the nature of book burning, in the form of a radio play. Highlights the duality of flame as both destructive and renewing, the difference being largely the point of view of the burner. I'm sure that while we view the Nazis as destroyers of intellectual culture via their book burning, they perhaps regarded their work as a renewal of society by eliminating detritus--in other words, the way we feel about ourselves when we busied ourselves burning Nazi materials. Better, perhaps, to be uniformly against the burning of books, than trying to decide that some books deserve burning, but not others. That last is a slippery slope of opportunism. ( )