Crush on Ray Bradbury
The key to Ray Bradbury is that he unspools yards and yards of verbiage and you have to go in and snip out the golden threads. I had a friend like that (well, before he became a chronic user of weed) and he was a delight to be with, because you could start a topic, sit back, and just watch him go.
Interviewer: What is space travel going to do for man?
Ray : Space travel is going to enable us to live forever. That’s its most important function. We wish to guard the gift of life. Khazantzakis puts it very well in his most remarkable book which no one has read, very view people have read it, um, [Ascesis:] The Saviors of God, and in the book he says, “God cries out to be saved; we go to save him. “ That’s what space travel is all about. In this part of the universe, God is wakened on this planet, and shaped Himself the way we are shaped. We are the flesh of the universe which wishes to know itself. That’s great; that’s responsible; that’s beautiful. It’s a very nice concept of religion, one I’m very comfortable with. I like to think of myself as part of the universe, waking up. And looking around and saying, “Hey, this is remarkable! Look at this, I have all these senses, I’d like to keep this gift going.”
Interviewer: You see no conflict between religion and science, then?
Ray: Absolutely none. The processes they are going through are two halves of a coin, because everything ends in mystery. [snipped verbiage]
Interviewer: What is space travel going to do for man?
Ray : Space travel is going to enable us to live forever. That’s its most important function. We wish to guard the gift of life. Khazantzakis puts it very well in his most remarkable book which no one has read, very view people have read it, um, [Ascesis:] The Saviors of God, and in the book he says, “God cries out to be saved; we go to save him. “ That’s what space travel is all about. In this part of the universe, God is wakened on this planet, and shaped Himself the way we are shaped. We are the flesh of the universe which wishes to know itself. That’s great; that’s responsible; that’s beautiful. It’s a very nice concept of religion, one I’m very comfortable with. I like to think of myself as part of the universe, waking up. And looking around and saying, “Hey, this is remarkable! Look at this, I have all these senses, I’d like to keep this gift going.”
Interviewer: You see no conflict between religion and science, then?
Ray: Absolutely none. The processes they are going through are two halves of a coin, because everything ends in mystery. [snipped verbiage]