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Title: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury Post by: Alex on June 06, 2012, 10:06:00 pm (http://l.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/.vxmgm0Ddjz7hg.SdOqzIQ--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYyNQ--/http://media.zenfs.com/en/blogs/thelookout/AP6612080223.jpg) (http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/science-fiction-author-ray-bradbury-dies-144137431.html) "In writing the short novel Fahrenheit 451 (http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article22857.html) I thought I was describing a world that might evolve in four or five decades. But only a few weeks ago, in Beverly Hills one night, a husband and wife passed me, walking their dog. I stood staring after them, absolutely stunned. The woman held in one hand a small cigarette-package-sized radio, its antenna quivering. From this sprang tiny copper wires which ended in a dainty cone plugged into her right ear. There she was, oblivious to man and dog, listening to far winds and whispers and soap-opera cries, sleep-walking, helped up and down curbs by a husband who might just as well not have been there. This was not fiction." ― Ray Bradbury |