[78-L] Ray Bradbury

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jun 8 11:42:43 PDT 2012


More obvious..it's in the title of one of his stories.

dl

On 6/8/2012 2:06 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> "You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were
> not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once
> were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today.
> The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the
> radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're
> looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records,
> old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look
> for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we
> stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing
> magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they
> stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.
> Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand
> what i mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what
> counts."
> Ray Bradbury: "Fahrenheit 451/"
>
> /On 2012-06-08 18:01, David Lennick wrote:
>> Nobody coming up the 78RPM connection?
>>
>> On 6/6/2012 4:37 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>>> Actually there IS a 78RPM connection, in the title of one of his stories.
>>>
>>> http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/chi-author-ray-bradbury-dead-20120606,0,3340056.story
>>>
>>> dl
>>>


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