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Originally posted by Christos:
My favourite story has got to be "The Toynbee Convector." The tale is nothing less than a metaphor for Bradbury's life and his motivation as a writer.

Christos

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I agree, Christos. Bradbury hopes to convince us to make our own future. By showing us the wonders of tomorrow, he inspires us to bring those wonders to life. The future is, indeed, what we make it.

So, I've traveled back in time to find the earliest comments within the vaults. This is it - 5:04pm, from 10/2/01!

"Old Paint" still has some kick left it. As a matter of fact, it is much like those little Mars probes, that keep on rolling and rolling and rolling...

I jumped on board here on 11/29/01. Fanning a few sparks from these embers is not a bad idea from time to time. It has a quaint feel and a different flair somehow.

Butch?

Maybe, just maybe, it has something to do with all that dynamite you keep settin' off!

"Wilma?" Indeed! Geez...I still haven't gotten over that one yet.
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OK, Sundance! Here's one for ya~
LZ: "When the Levy Breaks" - give a listen.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/music/clipserve/B000002J09001008/0/ref=mu_sam_wma_001_008/104-2452981-7876768

Creepy fee, and quite unusual as its tld in the 2nd Person (if my memory serves correct...)

Stelllllllllaaaaaa!!!!!!!!

Mr. Roger's had a great trolley, nice sounding bells.

I skimmed through the hardback copy of "Canticle" that I recently "upgraded" to and couldn't find that great passage about "Are we doomed to repeat our past transgressions and destroy ourselves over, and over again?" I think it was at the beginning or the end of a chapter in the old paperback I used to have. Maybe the novel kicked off with that passage? Makes me mad, some upgrade!

I did find the part about the colonists taking to the stars, and each race wanting to have a bigger representation than the previous. Miller said because of a limited gene pool among the stars, the racists actually GUARANTEED inter-breeding. Cool, huh?

My paperback is packed away, I think, and I might find it after unpacking in about three weeks. We're moving to a very nice apartment complex with a creek not 100 hundred yards from our front door. YEE HAW!!! "Movin on up!" Out of the ghetto. Three seperate murders last week in this neighborhood, in two days. We are SO out-of-here.

Robo,

I definitely have to get a new copy of "Electric" now since mine's gone missing and I remember that "Lost City" story as being great. Is that the one in which several very different characters (including an old actress, I think) are all on a Martian canal boat?

Chapter 31, remember The Doris Day show?

Yes, that's the story. You see??? You hardly remember it. Why? No respect, that story gets no respect.

Robo,

THE POSTMAN is such a quick read because it's hard to stop. You get caught up in the "Restored United States Of America" hoax and start believing it yourself. But, there were times I really wanted to SHOUT!!! at Gordon, thinking I could see things coming that he couldn't. That's getting caught up in a book. GREAT BOOK.

I think there’s a trolley in “I remember Mama”.

We were all having dinner over at a friend’s house once and they were playing a Rodney Dangerfield album while we were eating. I almost lost my dinner in one of their potted plants.

I don’t care what the critics said; I liked the movie “The Postman”.

AND here's Rodney: http://www.rodney.com/rodney/home/home.asp

Knowest thou whence cometh the aforesaid "white with foam" quote?

Ellen Corby. There wasn’t a role she didn’t do well. In “It’s A Wonderful Life”, when she asks Jimmy Stewart for some money from the savings and loan, she adlibbed the amount and totally surprised Stewart. And no one could say, “You old fool!” like her.

“Good night, Esther.”
“Good night, you old fool!”

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grasstains,
Check it out. All those Howard Hawks movies had “insolent women”. Lauren Bacall was the best but Angie Dickenson was another. The girl in “The Thing From Another World” (and yes, Hawks did direct that), the girl in “El Dorado”, “Red River”—I could go on and on. I wouldn’t want to turn my back on any of them or get into a fencing match with one (unless I knew I had an advantage) but they would all rate a flower on their pillow every night. And I’ll bet they’re all excellent dancers too--the kind of woman that Heinlein populated most of his novels with.

I'd take Myrna Loy in my corner over them anyday. She was kinda clumsy at times but always came through in the pinch. How many times did she save William Powell's *butt?

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