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R.I.P. Ray Bradbury
I find it hard to put into words, the impact his work had on me when I was young. He made me think about things outside my ordinary life.
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Well said.
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I met him, briefly, in '71 or so at Laney College in Oakland. We spent a fun night copying a poem he dashed off (Byzantium I Come Not From) onto a plate, sketching an elaborate border around it & running off a couple hundred copies - & I lost mine in the intervening years.
I mostly remember, he was up for anything. "Do it. If it doesn't work, you'll have learned something. If it works, you'll get a little more arrogant and the inevitable next mistake will be all the more instructive." 'Dust |
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He was artist-in-residence at Cal State Fullerton when I was attending there. A friend of mine had the job of being his driver since he didn't drive. So 3 days a week from Fullerton in Orange County out to Burbank area on the other side of LA were Bradbury lived and back in the morning, repeat at night. But she said it was the best experience of her college career listening to him on the trips.
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Lucky for us that his work lives on. He was one of the greats, along with Isaac Asimov, Arthur Clarke, and Robert Heinlein, who changed science fiction from shallow, lurid adventures with alien monsters into a genre of philosophy, social commentary, and technical possibilities. When any of such men eventually die, I wonder if somebody will issue the writer's entire collected works. But for Ray Bradbury, all the works would fill up an entire library shelf. If today's eBook format made such a collection available at low cost, that might be a tribute of which he would approve -- and it would be a great reason to acquire one of the readers.
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Truly a giant, and his work will be read a hundred years from now.
Wyvern |
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what can be said? search him, read and watch and know him.
jim |
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