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I don't think it's ever going to stop raining.
Reminds me of the Ray Bradbury short story when the kids lock this one little girl in the closet the only one day the sun comes out, so she misses out on the fresh air and the flowers. Very sad story. Always made me sad...
here it is: All Summer in a Day
man, that story really scarred me. i don't think i read it; i think i saw a short or a twilight zone episode. man, i hated those other kids.
looks here like it was a TV short on pbs. if i did see in 1982, i was only 10, and it did scar me. i remember the ending differed from the short story above, as in all the kids gave the one girl their flowers and all the living things they collected in the sun that hour that they made her miss. it was so sad.
here's a haunting little video by Sigur Ros similar but different where kids play in a post-apocalyptic wasteland in their gas masks beneath a blood-red sky. the music alone makes me want to cry, even without the imagery. can i borrow this cd from someone?
"If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore..." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. You've got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down."
"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things."
-- Ray Bradbury
"At 7 a.m. all my voices start talking inside my head, and when it reaches a certain pitch I jump out and trap them before they're gone. Or I shower and then the voices talk. You solve problems not by thinking directly of them but allowing them to ferment in their own time."
"And what, you ask, does writing teach us?
First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation.
So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
Zen in the Art of Writing -- Ray Bradbury
Here, read The Veldt as well. Another good Bradbury short story.
Last night, I watched the original Stepford Wives (1975) at the alamo downtown and it too hit the notions of high-tech advancement to the brink of unbearable perfection.
Sound of Thunder - Bradbury
A Good Man is Hard to Find - Flannery O'Connor
Scarlet Ibis - James Hurst
I used to love the Ray Bradbury Theatre and Hitchcock Presents and Twilight Zone and anything creepy and on latenight USA. Where has all the good sci-fi gone? I was an X-Files addict for most of the duration of Duchovny.
i miss cable. and the sci-fi network.
o what a great day to stay indoors, read short stories, and listen to miles davis...
posted by
zenbetty at 5:19 PM
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