http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/06/author-ray-bradbury-dies-at-91-daughter-says.html
QuoteAuthor Ray Bradbury dies at 91
:( Son of a bitch.
Honestly I didn't know he was still around.
But yeah. :(
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One more crotchety old man dies. RIP. :(
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L.
Damn :(
He was a great one. :(
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http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/all-of-my-friends-were-on-shelves-above.html (http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/06/all-of-my-friends-were-on-shelves-above.html)
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Ray Bradbury was an outspoken supporter of libraries throughout his career, and the following letter to the assistant director of Fayetteville Public Library — in which he explains the race to write the novella upon which Fahrenheit 451 was eventually based — perfectly illustrates why. The letter was written in 2006 in response to a city-wide "Big Read," in which Bradbury's classic novel was studied.
Transcript follows.
(Source: Fayetteville Public Library; Image: Ray Bradbury, via Random House.)
QuoteSeptember 15, 2006
Dear Shawna Thorup:
I'm glad to hear that you good people will be celebrating my book, "Fahrenheit 451." I thought you might want to hear how the first version of it, 25,000 words and which appeared in a magazine, got done.
I needed an office and had no money for one. Then one day I was wandering around U.C.L.A. and I heard typing down below in the basement of the library. I discovered there was a typing room where you could rent a typewriter for ten cents a half hour. I moved into the typing room along with a bunch of students and my bag of dimes, which totaled $9.80, which I spent and created the 25,000 word version of "The Fireman" in nine days. How could I have written so many words so quickly? It was because of the library. All of my friends, all of my loved ones, were on the shelves above and shouted, yelled and shrieked at me to be creative. So I ran up and down the stairs, finding books and quotes to put in my "Fireman" novella. You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves. It was the perfect way to be creative; that's what the library does.
I hope you enjoy reading my passionate output, which became larger a few years later and became popular, thank God, with a lot of people.
I send you all my good wishes,
(Signed)
Martian Chronicles, The illistrated man and Farenheait 451 were some of the most influencial literature in my early life.
They obviously didn't help you learn to spell though. ;)
Quote from: Siege on June 06, 2012, 07:16:12 PM
Martian Chronicles, The illistrated man and Farenheait 451 were some of the most influencial literature in my early life.
Clearly you got over it. :hmm:
http://youtu.be/e1IxOS4VzKM
Quote from: Josephus on June 06, 2012, 09:08:29 PM
They obviously didn't help you learn to spell though. ;)
I read it in Hebrew. I don't think I could read English back then.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on June 06, 2012, 09:41:18 PM
Quote from: Siege on June 06, 2012, 07:16:12 PM
Martian Chronicles, The illistrated man and Farenheait 451 were some of the most influencial literature in my early life.
Clearly you got over it. :hmm:
Meaning?
I am heavily into Scifi to this day.
Quote from: Siege on June 07, 2012, 07:24:37 AM
I read it in Hebrew.
So you read the ending first.
I didn't know he was still around but :(
Quote from: Siege on June 07, 2012, 07:26:10 AM
Meaning?
I am heavily into Scifi to this day.
Your worldview doesn't appear to have much if anything in common with Bradbury's.
Didn't he think the internet was a scam or something?