πππ’ π±πππππππ’ Los Angeles, 1980
"That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and mid-nights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts."Β -Ray Bradbury, "The October Country"
βIβm numb and Iβm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if Iβd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. Iβm soaked to the skin with emotion.β
β Ray Bradbury
The One Who Waits
βWe bend to the well, looking down. From the cool depths six faces peer back up at us.
One by one we bend until our balance is gone, and one by one drop into the mouth and down through cool darkness into the cold waters.β
β Ray Bradbury
"And if you look" -- she nodded at the sky -- "there's a man in the moon." He hadn't looked for a long time.
Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
"The monster shrieked closer, half through the forest now, thrashing and plunging, crushing the wildflowers, frightening rabbits and clouds of birds that rose screaming to the stars."
- Ray Bradbury, Death Is a Lonely Business (1985)
There was a smell of Time in the air tonight. He smiled and turned the fancy in his mind. There was a thought. What did time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people. And if you wondered what Time sounded like it, it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain. And, going further, what did Time look like? Time look like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, 100 billion faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing. That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded. And tonight β Tomas shoved a hand into the wind outside the truck β tonight you could almost taste time.β β Ray Bradbury, βThe Martian Chroniclesβ (William Morrow Paperbacks; May 21, 2013) (via Alive on All Channels)
2 unusual editions of Bradburyβs βFahrenheit 451β.