[78-L] Ray Bradbury

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Fri Jun 8 13:50:59 PDT 2012


"No News, or What Killed the Dog". Amazingly enough, here it is on a Russian 
website.

http://raybradbury.ru/library/story/94/5/0/

dl

On 6/8/2012 4:10 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> "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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