Status Updates From The Illustrated Man

Finished "No Particular Night or Morning"! After snapping out of his franticness, Hitchcock put on a spacesuit and walked out into space, now lost forever as he denies the existence of anybody and anything, including himself. And there he goes. I mean, the guy was an idiot, so yeah. Overall, very thoughtful story.

I take back what I said about Hitchcock. He's going overboard, believing that everybody's dead unless they're touching him, that past versions of him are dead, and you can't prove anything happened once it's over and done. However, when a meteor breaks a hole in the rocket wall and almost kills him, he goes frantic and won't respond to anything. So, uh, yeah. That happened.

(56/186) I found an edition of this book at a bookstore today with a hundred more pages because it’s not single spaced :/ I can’t believe the guy with no faith won’t get to meet Jesus. Bros got an asymptote stopping him from meeting Jesus in the flesh. Also all this rain in The Long Rain reminds me of the Vietnam War.

Just started reading the eleventh story, "No Particular Night or Morning". Two astronauts, Hitchcock and Clemens, are in space a billion miles from Earth. While Clemens keeps the belief that Earth still exists, Hitchcock believes it no longer exists because he cannot see it or touch it. I will admit, Hitchcock is a sensible, practical man.

(46/186) what if my name was Ray Bradbury and I was bored so I wrote a story about Jesus’s second coming on some random planet the day before it makes first contact with aliens (Earthlings)? Like bro. How does one think up this bullshit 😭

(39/186) my only question about The Other Foot is how did only black people make it to Mars??

just finished "the rocket man", its definitely my second or third favourite so far, i cant decide

Witchy lady in the middle of Wisconsin? Checks out.

(27/186) Bradbury has me pondering about death and how we all die alone at 2:30am. That’s no good. It was cool setup for a story about facing certain death.

(19/186) the illustrated man is so troubled :/ also this book has the tiniest fucking print ever