The Sieve and The Sand The Sieve and the Sand is very powerful. Montag is getting all of this information. As he is taking it in, he must process it too. It pours into his head like sand in an hourglass. It all must go in slowly or he won’t understand it. Since they were only crammed, they never thought through what they had read. “Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so …showed first 75 words of 545 total…

…showed last 75 words of 545 total…hourglass was empty since everyone was gone and everything was destroyed. But, there were still a few sand crystals that got stuck. Waiting to be discovered and knocked in. All because the government let one person get the word out and it started a lot of things. It all flowed smoothly and ideas started to fill up in his head. Later, it will be flipped over and someone will have to stir it up again.