Books weren’t so much burned as the gold engravings used mesoamerican cultures were melted down into bricks and sent to the Vatican to line furniture.

“Surreal” was a weird translation.

That made me cry Ehecatl.

Here is some of what survived:

Internet Archive

*Codices

“Heresy” - some guy throwing a seminal treatise on genetics derived from thousands of years of selective breeding into a pyre, probably