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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 ⬇️
"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 ⬇️
July 29 #SummerSpecial Rain Sometime I wonder if I should revisit this author because I was obsessed with him when I was a teen. Some I don't remember reading. @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
pickMemorably creepy. A vivid short story that makes me disconcerted by Alexa & smart home technology. 25 yeas after reading it!
I read this years and years ago, and could never find anyone that could tell me the title. Listening to Ghostland, it appears near the end. I can't wait to find it now and read it again. Image courtesy of google.
#Halloween #throwback to 2014 when I was #Ylla ❤️️👽#Martianchronicles #raybradbury #scifi Why, yes I did cover my body in copper paint, thanks for asking 😂
How sad Ray would be to see the contemporary relevance of his 75 year-old wish-fulfillment fantasy.
#ReadBannedBooks #UniteAgainstBookBans 2w