Feeding on Flowers and Fireworks
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This has always been my favourite dystopian novel. Re-reading it a couple of weeks ago, I was chilled all over again by how effective it is. Orwell’s 1984 is bleaker, Huxley’s Brave New World is kookier, but Bradbury’s entry into the form achieves something I don’t think either of its – arguably more famous – cousins do. It feels utterly real. It feels like something that could actually happen.
Some days, in fact, I think it already has.
Our widescreen TVs may not quite occupy whol...
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Nov 16, 2020 05:04AM
Excellent blog post. Unfortunately, the people who most need to read it will either refuse to do so, or read it with the intention of being "offended" and "hurt" by it. Either way, in all likelihood they would try to cancel the author... Again!!!
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