[78-L] Ray Bradbury

[Kristjan Saag]

"After The Ball"?

On 2012-06-08 20:42, David Lennick wrote:
> 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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