Ray Bradbury takes the bus to an untold land.

[esteefee]

oh, man. I have so many feelings about Ray Bradbury, all of them positive but tinted with a little fear and melancholy, brown and gold and red, dusted with Martian sand and smelling faintly of must and my Uncle Lloyd's pipe smoke (I sometimes borrowed his paperbacks

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[kristen999]

Amazing and influential storyteller. It's cool that you have signed copies of some of his work.

[esteefee]

<3 it is. Unfortunately my right eyeball is too pathetic for me to read them! I will have to Kindle them and do a retrospective. :))

[neevebrody]

What a gift to have been able to see and talk to him in person, though I felt as if I'd done that a thousand times through the years.

And he never learned how to drive. In recalling his thoughts on his story "The Crowd," he said it might have been his witnessing a horrendous automobile accident when he was a young boy living in Los Angeles. I've owned 3 copies of The October Country in my life - still have the first one, a very loved copy indeed.

Thanks for your wonderful words about this wonderful man. I've been heartened over the past few days to see so many echo the regard I've held for him all these years.

[esteefee]

he was awesome with kids, altho at the time I too precocious to realize how annoying I was being. :)

my father told me that (about Ray never learning to drive) and I remember The Crowd...the creepy bit about them appearing before the wheel stopped moving.

*smishes you*

[antesqueluz]

Very well said.

[timespirt]

I met him at a Icon. He will be missed.

[mirabile_dictu]

Wow, you got to meet him! That is so cool! I was in awe of him.