Granger was a librarian in his "former" life, before he
punched a fireman who came burn his library and he has had to live on the run ever
since.
For Granger, books are not only the cumulative
record of man's successes and mistakes, but it is the way in which society can be
rebuilt after the wars, after the dictatorships fall.
When
he asks Montag what he has brought with him, Montag sheepishly admits he thinks he has
some Ecclesiastes and Revelations, books of the Bible, but fears he has lost even
those. Granger and friends have come up with a way to retrieve everything a man has
ever read, and once it is safe, they will reprint the books from memory, or pass them on
to their children until it is safe to do so.
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