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This is not a world I would want to live in.

“Dark is horror, he shouted, silently, facing the little houses. It is meant for contrast. You must fear, you hear! That has always been the way of this world. You destroyers of Edgar Allan Poe and fine big-worded Lovecraft, you burner of Halloween masks and destroyer of pumpkin jack-o-lanterns!”

ça fait 2 fois en 15 jours que j'entends parler d'attractions foraines ou des femmes se font eletrocuter je commence à me poser des questions

je me demande ce qu'il se passe dans la tête de ce mec srx

Oh well, at least Capt. Hart is a cigar smoker, I’ll give him that much!

In “Zero Hour,” for some reason I picture Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw as Henry and Mary Morris, Karen Allen as Helen, and the Caroline Kennedy (as a little girl, that is, not the adult version) as Mink.

In “The Man,” Capt. Hart’s attitude reminds me of that the unnamed Capt. in “The Earth Man” story of “The Martian Chronicles,” i.e. naively expecting the inhabitants of another planet to throw him a parade.
Lame!

Parting thought on “Pillar of Fire”: although the future world of 2349 envisioned by Bradbury totally sucks in terms of censorship and stifling of imagination and creativity…at least booze and tobacco are still legal, thank Gawd! Otherwise it would truly be Hell on Earth!

—p. 60: “and you sucked and blew, sucked and blew.” No double entendres whatsoever!

—p. 54: “He would go to the Martian tombs…Theirs was an ancient culture, much different from that of Earth, patterned on the Egyptian, if what the librarian had said was true. And the Egyptian—what a crucible of dark superstition and midnight terror that culture had been. Mars it *was*, then. Beautiful Mars!” [original emphasis]