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"So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 June 5, 2012)
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: "So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
"We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 June 5, 2012)
He was amazing. Fortunately...thru books and internet, his ideas and thoughts will live on infinitum.
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i was trying to figure out what i first read by him? and i discovered that i prolly saw a TV show inpsired by one of his short stories before i was even reading---
my folks were NOT fans of sci-fi at all. they didn't even like me reading it, but they had The Ilustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451 on thier bookshelves... If it was on the shelf one them would have read it, but i don't know which. He really crossed alotof territory...
I have an Analog subscription and was catching up a little yesterday cuz they tend to sit for awhile 'fore i can get to them, and i was musing how much fun it is to read short stories cuz they can take a single idea and explore it without you having to "lose" 12 hours reading a novel....
as it is, I am only up to march of this years for Analog so i have alot of catching up to do there too...
-------------------- Don't envy the happiness of those who live in a fool's paradise. Posts: 36378 | From: USA | Registered: Sep 2003
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quote:Originally posted by glassman: i was trying to figure out what i first read by him? and i discovered that i prolly saw a TV show inpsired by one of his short stories before i was even reading---
my folks were NOT fans of sci-fi at all. they didn't even like me reading it, but they had The Ilustrated Man and Fahrenheit 451 on thier bookshelves... If it was on the shelf one them would have read it, but i don't know which. He really crossed alotof territory...
I have an Analog subscription and was catching up a little yesterday cuz they tend to sit for awhile 'fore i can get to them, and i was musing how much fun it is to read short stories cuz they can take a single idea and explore it without you having to "lose" 12 hours reading a novel....
as it is, I am only up to march of this years for Analog so i have alot of catching up to do there too...
I do have to say...reading it as a youngin...the Illustrated Man was disturbing. Bradbury was exceptional at that. Thought provoking.
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