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Science Fiction"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Ray Bradbury"},{"scheme":"http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#","term":"Raymond Chandler"}],"title":{"type":"text","$t":"Remembering Ray Bradbury"},"content":{"type":"html","$t":"\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9UwBmngSBPs\/UMUFFWLK8lI\/AAAAAAAAKDY\/gjJmT25jWt4\/s1600\/Fahrenheit_451.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"190\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-9UwBmngSBPs\/UMUFFWLK8lI\/AAAAAAAAKDY\/gjJmT25jWt4\/s400\/Fahrenheit_451.jpg\" width=\"200\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EHe wrote the novel whose title evokes for everyone the nightmare it would be to live in a world which has banned all books, and his favourite holiday was Hallowe’en. So October is a good time to remember Ray Bradbury, who died this year at the age of 91, by passing on a letter he wrote to an American librarian about composing that very novel, \u003Ci\u003EFahrenheit 451\u003C\/i\u003E, in the basement of the Powell Library at UCLA.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EPowell Library is that Italian Renaissance-style brick building (I can make this architectural call because it strongly resembles a Brunelleschi rotonda in Florence I remember very clearly, from having once driven my boyfriend's brand new Vespa smack into it) which you will have seen if you have ever watched a Hollywood movie with a scene which takes place at a University, no matter what state or city it is purported to be located in. In fact, I remember seeing it stand in for Berkeley just recently when \u003Ci\u003EThe Graduate\u003C\/i\u003E was on TV.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAnd this of course is perfect for Ray Bradbury, who always used to say that libraries had been his University, just as Prof. Jim Flynn says can be true for everyone in the book he presented at Auckland Libraries for last year's New Zealand Book Month, \u003Ci\u003EThe torchlight list. \u003C\/i\u003EThe inspiration for Prof. Flynn’s book was the family story of his uncles reading by torchlight on the troopships carrying them to Europe, but it could just as well have been Ray Bradbury, who did at one point apply to attend City College in Los Angeles, but, when the only answer he could come up with when a ‘little elf’ inside him asked him why he would want to was “Girls, women and sex”, decided he wouldn’t go there after all, but devote himself straight away to being a writer.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EHere's the letter he sent the Fayetteville Public Library fifty odd years later, when the book he then went and wrote was chosen for their \"Big Read\", about how that had gone. I came across it on a website called \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/search\/label\/raybradbury\"\u003ELetters of Note\u003C\/a\u003E (where you can also see a scan of the actual letter), a site featuring \"correspondence deserving of a wider audience (fakes will be sneered at)\", and this it certainly is.   \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ESeptember 15, 2006 \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDear Shawna Thorup: \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI'm glad to hear that you good people will be celebrating my book, \"Fahrenheit 451.\" I thought you might want to hear how the first version of it, 25,000 words and which appeared in a magazine, got done. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI needed an office and had no money for one. Then one day I was wandering around U.C.L.A. and I heard typing down below in the basement of the library. I discovered there was a typing room where you could rent a typewriter for ten cents a half hour. I moved into the typing room along with a bunch of students and my bag of dimes, which totaled $9.80, which I spent and created the 25,000 word version of \"The Fireman\" in nine days. How could I have written so many words so quickly? It was because of the library. All of my friends, all of my loved ones, were on the shelves above and shouted, yelled and shrieked at me to be creative. So I ran up and down the stairs, finding books and quotes to put in my \"Fireman\" novella. You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves. It was the perfect way to be creative; that's what the library does. \u003Cbr \/\u003EI hope you enjoy reading my passionate output, which became larger a few years later and became popular, thank God, with a lot of people. \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EI send you all my good wishes, \u003Cbr \/\u003E(Signed)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003EOn the occasion of his 90th birthday, Bradbury wrote a longer version of this story for \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.spotlight.ucla.edu\/ray-bradbury\/hot-topic\/\"\u003EUCLA magazine\u003C\/a\u003E, where you can see a photo of Powell Library, the place my sister, who went to UCLA, remembers as the best place to daydream on the whole campus.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HWXeSnvOf-4\/UOgFhRxVUxI\/AAAAAAAAACk\/Kux1yrSwUA4\/s1600\/The_Bradbury_Chronicles.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-HWXeSnvOf-4\/UOgFhRxVUxI\/AAAAAAAAACk\/Kux1yrSwUA4\/s200\/The_Bradbury_Chronicles.jpg\" width=\"134\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003ESomeone named Sam Weller, believe it or not, as if he were one of the exiles from the society which had outlawed books in \u003Ci\u003EFahrenheit 451\u003C\/i\u003E, the ones who had each memorised a book to keep it alive, and his would have been \u003Ci\u003EThe Pickwick Papers\u003C\/i\u003E, has written a book about Ray Bradbury called \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b1983470~S1\"\u003E\u003Ci\u003EThe Bradbury chronicles : the life of Ray Bradbury\u003C\/i\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E. I haven't read it myself, but the reviews on the library catalogue for it are good, although I need to remark on this odd line in the one from Publishers Weekly:\u0026nbsp; \"If Weller places Bradbury in a pantheon occupied by Shakespeare, Melville, Dickens and Poe, he also mentions more than one extramarital affair and his hero's poor eating habits.”\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EAm I reading this correctly? Is this saying that extramarital affairs are in contrast with inclusion in this exalted pantheon? Shakespeare’s love life may still be anyone’s guess, but Jay Parini’s book \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2521625~S1\"\u003EThe passages of HM\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E convinced even dubious me of the married Melville’s \"unambiguous attraction in thought and deed to men\"; the married Charles Dickens’s behavior after meeting and falling in love with the actress Ellen Ternan was described by his daughter Kate like this: \"He did not care a damn what happened to any of us. Nothing could surpass the misery and unhappiness of our home\"; and while Edgar Allan Poe's reputation is not besmirched by marital infidelity, there is that fact that he married a 13 year old. Maybe it was more the poor eating habits which threaten to take Bradbury out of the pantheon -- you've got to watch that Campbell's tomato soup, one of his more frequent meals, as I recall.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EBy far my favourite works by Ray Bradbury are his short stories, which, mistakenly apprehensive that they would be too science-fictiony for me, I was only inspired to read when my daughter's Intermediate School English teacher assigned them to her class (forever grateful, Miss Chambers!). Of all the short stories my favourite is \"The Fog Horn\", a wondrous mixture of the mythic, the sorrowful, and the shivery, in which a sea monster is lured from the deep by the call of a Fog Horn -- I picture the long neck of an aquatic, brontosaurus-type animal rising out of the water, draped with algae.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\"One day many years ago a man walked along and stood in the sound of the ocean on a cold sunless shore and said, ‘We need a voice to call across the water, to warn ships. I’ll make a voice like all of time and all of the fog that ever was. I’ll make a voice that is like an empty bed beside you all night long, and like an empty house when you open the door, and like trees in autumn with no leaves. A sound like the birds flying south, crying, and a sound like November wind and the sea on the hard, cold shore. I’ll make a sound that’s so alone that no one can miss it, that whoever hears it will weep in their souls, and hearths will seem warmer, and being inside will seem better to all who hear it in the distant towns. I’ll make me a sound and an apparatus and they’ll call it a Fog Horn and whoever hears it will know the sadness of eternity and the briefness of life.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe Fog Horn blew.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--slSmhmudl0\/UMUFpDaqbVI\/AAAAAAAAKDk\/A8oOo0-BBAY\/s1600\/A_pleasure_to_burn.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;\"\u003E\u003Cimg border=\"0\" height=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/--slSmhmudl0\/UMUFpDaqbVI\/AAAAAAAAKDk\/A8oOo0-BBAY\/s400\/A_pleasure_to_burn.jpg\" width=\"142\" \/\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003EYou can read the entire story online at \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.grammarpunk.com\/lit\/gp\/THE_FOG_HORN.pdf\"\u003Egrammarpunk.com\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2496486~S1\"\u003EThe stories of Ray Bradbury\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E is an Everyman edition of 100 of Bradbury's best stories, including \"The Fog Horn\". You can read the early stories which eventually became Fahrenheit 451 in \u003Ci\u003E\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.elgar.govt.nz\/record=b2624697~S1\"\u003EA pleasure to burn: Fahrenheit 451 stories\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/i\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ERay Bradbury always said he didn't think of himself as a science fiction writer, because he wasn't interested in getting the science straight. Or maybe because he didn't write stuff like this parody of science fiction which I also found on the \u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2012\/06\/they-pay-brisk-money-for-this-crap.html\"\u003ELetters of Note website\u003C\/a\u003E, in a letter by one of my favourite authors, the crime writer Raymond Chandler, sent from the seaside home in La Jolla where he had moved to get away from Hollywood and its parties where people were always mistaking his wife for his mother (according to Billy Wilder) and its abundance of alcohol, although in the end the move only solved one of these two problems. He is writing to his agent, lamenting the consequent drying-up of his creative powers, which must be one of the most horrible curses which can come down on a man, witness F. Scott Fitzgerald's suicide in slow motion, and Hemingway's abrupt and violent one. So we can forgive him a bit of bitchiness, and would anyway, I hope, because it is so funny. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003E6005 Camino de la Costa     La Jolla, California \u003Cbr \/\u003EMar 14 1953\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDear Swanie: \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EPlayback is getting a bit tired. I have 36,000 words of doodling and not yet a stiff. That is terrible.     I am suffering from a very uncommon disease called (by me) atrophy of the inventive powers. I can write like a streak but I bore myself. That being so, I could hardly fail to bore others worse. I can't help thinking of that beautiful piece of Sid Perelman's entitled \"I'm Sorry I Made Me Cry.\" \u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EDid you ever read what they call Science Fiction? It's a scream. It is written like this: \"I checked out with K19 on Aldabaran III, and stepped out through the crummalite hatch on my 22 Model Sirus Hardtop. I cocked the timejector in secondary and waded through the bright blue manda grass. My breath froze into pink pretzels. I flicked on the heat bars and the Brylls ran swiftly on five legs using their other two to send out crylon vibrations. The pressure was almost unbearable, but I caught the range on my wrist computer through the transparent cysicites. I pressed the trigger. The thin violet glow was icecold against the rust-colored mountains. The Brylls shrank to half an inch long and I worked fast stepping on them with the poltex. But it wasn't enough. The sudden brightness swung me around and the Fourth Moon had already risen. I had exactly four seconds to hot up the disintegrator and Google had told me it wasn't enough. He was right.\" \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003EThey pay brisk money for this crap? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cblockquote\u003ERay\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E(On view at the\u003Ca href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/search\/label\/raymondchandler\"\u003E Letters of Note\u003C\/a\u003E website edited by Shaun Usher. The homepage says a book collection of its contents will be published next month. I'm looking forward to it.) 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