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Los temas más celebrados de Ray Bradbury reaparecen en esta colección con una renovada vitalidad: el tiempo ambiguo, ilusorio, intimidante; los automóviles, a veces destinados a complacer instintos destructivos; las máquinas, respuestas a las esperanzas y necesidades del hombre y también inesperadas y graves amenazas.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I sing the Body Electric; The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them; They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, And charge them full with the charge of the Soul.
--Walt Whitman
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book, a bit late in the day, but with admiration, affection, and friendship, is for NORMAN CORWIN
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I arrived in the truck very early in the morning. ("The Kilimanjaro Device")
The men had been hiding down by the gatekeeper's lodge for half an hour or so, passing a bottle of the best between, and then, the gatekeeper having been carried off to bed, they dodged up the path at six in the evening and looked at the great house with the warm lights lit in each window. ("The terrible conflagration up at the place")
He did not want to be the father of a small blue pyramid. ("Tomorrow's child")
It was as if a light came on in a green room. ("The women")
It was in the Depression, deep down in the empty soul of the Depression in 1932, when we were heading west by 1928 Buick, that my mother, father, my brother Skip, and I came upon what we ever after called the Inspired Chicken Motel. ("The Inspired Chicken Motel")
At eight thirty that night he heard the sharp crack from the theater down the hall. ("Downwind from Gettysburg")
At one minute to nine he should have rolled the wooden Indian back into warm tobacco darkness and turned the key in the lock. ("Yes, we'll gather at the river")
"Good God in heaven, what's that?" ("The cold wind and the warm")
What made the old poem run in his mind he could not guess, but run it did... ("Night call, collect")
I hadn't been in Dublin for years. ("The haunting of the new")
Grandma! ("I Sing the Body Electric!")
It was the Tombling day, and all the people had walked up the summer road, including Grandma Loblilly, and they stood now in the green day and the high sky country of Missouri, and there was a smell of the seasons changing and the grass breaking out in flowers. ("The Tombling day")
Imagine a summer that would never end. ("Any friend of Nicholas Nickleby's is a friend of mine")
The woman stepped to the kitchen window and looked out. ("Heavy-Set")
Brokaw. ("The man in the Rorshach shirt")
"There he is!" ("Henry the Ninth")
The great eye floated in space. ("The Lost City of Mars")
CANTATA CELEBRATING THE EIGHTH DAY OF CREATION AND THE PROMISE OF THE NINTH ("Christus Apollo")
Citas
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"Oh, he had readers all right, all kinds of readers. Even me. I don't touch books from one autumn to the next. But I touched his. I think I liked the Michigan stories best. About the fishing. I think the stories about the fishing are good. I don't think anybody ever wrote about fishing that way and maybe won't ever again. Of course, the bullfight stuff is good too. But that's a little far off. Some of the cowpokes like them; they been around the animals all their life. A bull here or a bull there, I guess it's the same. I know one cowpoke has read just the bull stuff in the Spanish stories of the old man's forty times. He could go over there and fight, I swear." ("The Kilimanjaro Device")
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"I think we're...flying?" ("The Kilimanjaro Device")
My brother didn't hit me, I didn't hit my brother, carefully, secretly, until just before noon when we got out to water the flowers by the side of the road. ("The Inspired Chicken Motel")
And she drummed the motor and we ran out of the valley, along the lake, with gravel buckshotting out behind, and up the hills and through the deep snow forest, and by the time we reached the last rise, Nora's tears were shaken away, she did not look back, and we drove at seventy through the dense falling and thicker night toward a darker horizon and a cold stone city, and all the way, never once letting go, in silence I held one of her hands. ("The haunting of the new")
Ten minutes later, when he had gone singing beyond a hill, by the look of it, all the lands of England seemed ready for a people who someday soon in history might arrive... ("Henry the Ninth")
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