This passage comes after Montag has killed Beatty and has
managed to escape, with Faber's help, across the river. The silence refers to the
atmosphere of the campfire with the men (the book covers) around
it.
The reason that it is a silence is that the men are at
peace, I believe. In the city, no one was at peace. They were all trying to do stuff,
to listen to the parlour walls or to go out and speed around in their cars or
something. But they were never just quiet and thoughtful like these men
are.
It is concerned with all the world because this is the
sort of thing that all the world needs. It needs to have this kind of opportunity to be
quiet and think.
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