It all came together and became a single thing in his mind. After a long time of floating on the land and a short time floating in the river he knew why he must never burn again in his life.The sun burned every day. It burned time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burned things with the firemen and the sun burned Time, that meant that everything burned!One of them had to stop burning. The sun wouldn't, certainly. Fahrenheit 451