Julius+Ceasar

On page 119, Beatty quotes Julius ceasar right before Montag burns him.

"Beatty grinned his most charming grin. Well, that one way to get an audience. Hold a gun on a man and force him to listen to your speech. Speech away. What'll it be this time? Why don't you belch Shakespeare at me, you fumbling snob. **“There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, for I am arm’d so strong in honesty that they pass me as an idle wind, which I respect not!”** How's that? Go ahead now, you second hand litterateur, pull the trigger."

Beatty is suggesting that he has no real interest in the speech he is about to be subjected to and hey, guy, I've read those books, too. So kill me already. He really is trying to make Montag kill him. He’s bringing it on.