And in the years when your shadow leaned clear across the land as you lay abed nights with your heartbeat mounting to the billions, his invention must let a man drowse easy in the falling leaves like the boys in autumn who, comfortably strewn in the dry stacks, are content to be a part of the death of the world...
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About Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine.
Themes
- Death — Contemplations on mortality, loss, and the legacy we leave