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The Visitor - 5/5. Hell, I could even say 6/5. It’s probably top three in this collection so far.

(139/186) I read this chapter on 4 hours of sleep & it was so fucking trippy. Esp reading it outside- it can be hard to visualize what the fuck Bradbury is talking abt. ESPECIALLY IN HIS SHORT STORIES. U can't just tell me all the black people moved to Mars & expect me to roll w/ it. Or that Jesus visited the day before. Or that there's a disease where you ooze blood, but hold your horses, b/c there's a telepath too

Ok Ray, eres jochis y ye gusta alguien con apellido Smith

Just read the Epilogue and finished the book! After seeing all the Illustrated Man's stories, the narrator watches a new illustration form on the Illustrated Man's back, but it shows the Illustrated Man choking him to death. The narrator runs away to a neighboring town for safety. I hope he makes it. Overall, good book!

Finished "The Rocket"! Maria kisses Bodoni in bed and tells him he's the best father in the world. He promises to take her on a little trip one night, then the two go to sleep. Overall, good story!

Bodoni brings his children into the newly-fixed rocket to take them on a week-long trip through space. In reality, it's just a trick with mirrors and films and stuff, essentially a game of make-believe. They're still on Earth. But it fools the kids, and they leave the rocket happy, thanking their father and saying they'll remember it forever.

Bodoni works on the rocket all night, buying all sorts of expensive touch-ups to make it work. Let's hope something good happens.

Everybody is disappointed with the rocket, convinced it will never fly. Bodoni has some work to do and people to call before anything happens. What's he gonna do?

In the junkyard, Bodoni tries to get his rocket to work, but it's only a heap of junk. Furious, he considers tearing the rocket apart, but thinks about his family. He goes back home and tells them they're going to Mars. Okay?

Bodoni is approached by a man who wants to sell him a space rocket mock-up for $2,000. Though Bodoni doesn't really have the money, he decides to buy it anyway. Looks like this is gonna bring in some opportunity!

Bodoni announces that somebody in the family will go on the rocket to Mars. They draw straws, but nobody is enthusiastic, since they're all afraid the others will be jealous when they get back and the wife is pregnant. In the end, it's decided nobody will go. Damn.