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Thread #145276   Message #3360368
Posted By: GUEST,.gargoyle
07-Jun-12 - 02:59 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Ray Bradbury 20 Aug. 1920- 6 June 2012
Subject: RE: Obit: Ray Bradbury 20 Aug. 1920- 6 June 2012
Mr. Bradbury liked to think on death...
Drummer Boy of Shiloh
The Veldt "Nothing ever likes to die ... even a room.

Imprinted in my soul is a memorized monologue published multipe ways ....and in Dandylion Wine   


So if trollys and runabouts and friends and near friends can go away for awhile, or go away forever, or rust, or fall apart or die, and if people can be murdered, and if someone like great -grand -ma, who was going to live forever, can die...and if all of this true...then I, Douglas Spaulding...someday...must....


Something Wicked

Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it.

Fever Dream
They put him between fresh, clean, laundered sheets and there was always ... I am dead, he thought. I've been killed, and yet I live. My body is dead ...

Sincerely,


Gargoyle