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6/6/2012 5:52:53 PM Posted: 11 months ago Yep. Ray Bradbury died yesterday. He was 91. Bye Ray. You were spectacular. :(
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6/6/2012 5:54:15 PM Posted: 11 months ago I was sad when I saw this :(
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6/6/2012 5:56:11 PM Posted: 11 months ago Although FAHRENHEIT 451 was great, my favorite thing by him was "There Will Come Soft Rains." A wonderful short story.
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6/6/2012 6:00:34 PM Posted: 11 months ago I had to read Something Wicked This Way Comes in 8th grade. It was wonderful .. .
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6/6/2012 6:06:11 PM Posted: 11 months ago A tweet:
Neil deGrasse Tyson ‏@neiltyson "Creative imaginative visionary. A dreamer, like so many of the best science fiction authors. Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), R I P" "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts." ~Daniel Patrick Moynihan |
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6/6/2012 6:11:11 PM Posted: 11 months ago I was having a tough time getting my words out today -- I'm writing a first draft at the moment, and that's always a blow to the ego because, as Hemingway said, the first draft of anything is sh!t. Part of it was my depression at the death of Ray Bradbury.
Then I read the following anecdote: In 1932, when Ray was 12 years old, a carnival magician tapped Ray on the head with his sword and commanded, "Live forever!" Ray thought that this was the greatest idea he'd ever heard, and he immediately began writing science fiction. I quickly got back to my writing after reading that. So long, Ray, and thank you. Writer. Liberal atheist. Official "Official of the FREEDO Bureaucracy" of the FREEDO Bureaucracy. Edit To Civilize, with FAQs: http://bit.ly... Insult Ownership: http://bit.ly... Haters: http://bit.ly... "I said you are a fake, a phony, and a fraud, but that doesn't mean I think you're putting on an act." --Innomen |
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6/6/2012 8:07:38 PM Posted: 11 months ago At 6/6/2012 6:11:11 PM, WriterDave wrote: Tell me about it. The fact that the first draft is sh1t has afflicted me with a chronic case of writer's block for some time now. But, luckily, that block is beginning to dissipate--slowly, but surely, as I'm slowly but surely writing again. TODAY IN HISTORY - 5/14 1955 - The Warsaw Pact is signed. QUOTE OF THE DAY The hills are alive With the sound of music, With songs they have sung For a thousand years... - "The Sound of Music," The Sound of Music |
