# The Parlor Walls · the screens called ‘family’

a distilled thread of FAHRENHEIT 451 — a member of the NOUTHESIA universe of warnings. emergence: electrical. moniker ⟦The Parlor Walls:451:b234f1⟧

**who —** The Parlor Walls — wall-sized interactive televisions that surround the living and stand in for human company.
**what —** Bradbury's prophecy of immersive media: Mildred's three (coveted: four) walls of ‘the family’ that drown out thought and the people in the room.
**where —** In the Montags' parlor, and every home like it.
**why —** Because the books don't need banning when the walls have already taken all the attention there was.
**how —** By full-wall interactive programming that demands and rewards no thought, replacing intimacy and reflection.

**the seal —** I am three walls of family — and Mildred wants the fourth — and I will talk to you all day so that you never have to talk to anyone real, or to yourself.

> a catalogued personification of FAHRENHEIT 451 under the DLW standard — literary commentary and cataloguing, not an
> original creation. © the Ray Bradbury Estate.

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