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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]

—p. 52: “They were dead and *knew* they were dead!” [origin emphasis]

—Sgt. Joker in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”: “The dead know only one thing: It is better to be alive.”

—p. 52: “They were dead and *knew* they were seas!” [original emphasis]

—Sgt. Joker (Matthew Modine) in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket”: “The dead know only one thing: It is better to be alive.”

—p. 48: “He must kill and kill and kill and kill and kill…He must kill and then kill and then kill again.” Catchy and memorable!

—p. 40: “‘’By the way, do you have any of Lovecraft?’
‘Is that a sex book?’
Lantry exploded with laughter. ‘No, no, it’s a man.’”