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Usher II | Ray Bradbury

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Usher II | Ray Bradbury

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Usher II is one of Bradbury's invectives against censorship, written in 1949, obliquely referencing McCarthyism, and directly referencing book bans and book burnings, even if set in his own future.
It's hard not to see MC William Stendhal as other than an authorial avatar, driven mad by the destruction of his 50,000 book library at the hands of investigators of the Moral Climate crusade, he plots his revenge upon the repressive ⬇️

Bookwomble ... agents who have followed him to Mars by recreating Poe's terrible dooms, which they'd know to avoid had they ever read any of the books they burned. I smiled through this one with a grisly bibliophilic homicidal glee! 💀
How sad Ray would be to see the contemporary relevance of his 75 year-old wish-fulfillment fantasy.
#ReadBannedBooks #UniteAgainstBookBans 1w

AnishaInkspill this looks interesting and will look into it, I'm really enjoying reading MartianC 4d

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Usher II | Ray Bradbury

"How could I expect you to know Mr. Poe? He died a long while ago, before Lincoln. All of his books were burned in the Great Fire...He and Lovecraft and Hawthorne and Ambrose Bierce and all the tales of terror and fantasy and horror and, for that matter, tales of the future were burned. Heartlessly. They passed a law. Oh, it started very small. In 1950 and '60 it was a grain of sand. They began by controlling books of cartoons and then ⬇️

Bookwomble ... detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves."
- Ray Bradbury, "Usher II", a Martian Chronicle ?
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