Great idea. Great thread. Great choices. I loved F451 as a teenager (I'm 49), but appreciated it more recently because of my sister-in-law's father-in-law. He was an elderly academic from Czech-land who, before the walls came down, would travel here, spend mornings in libraries reading history and news, spend afternoons writing it out to commit it to memory, and then go home as a walking journal of political theory and reportage. He couldn't carry a Time magazine for fear of confiscation and arrest, but became his friends' link to the world beyond the Iron Curtain. He never, to my knowledge, read Bradbury, but I bet Ol'Ray knew all about him and others like him. Oh, my choices. Staines' "Crossing The Water", Humphries' "We Are One" or "Swimming To The Other Side."
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