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She wanted to get at the hate of them all, to pry at it and work at it until she found a little chink, and then pull out a pebble or a stone or a brick and then a part of the wall, and, once started, the whole edifice might roar down and be done with.

But which was the keystone, and how to get at it? How to touch them and get a thing started in all of them to make a ruin of their hate?

Brings me back to 9th grade English honors. Also, I can not ignore that the theme of tech as a replacement for parenting in the first story is eerily similar to today's iPad kids and Roblox tweens. Smarthomes are already on the verge of integrating AR/VR environments. Finally, compound all this with AI... Bradbury was far ahead of his time.