Reflections for a Sunday: Ray Bradbury
"I got my education in the library for free. When a person wants something they will find a way."
A Message from Ray Bradbury
“When I was born in 1920,” he said in 2000, “the auto was only 20 years old. Radio didn’t exist. TV didn’t exist. I was born at just the right time to write about all of these things.” (Joshua Odell Editions / Capra Press)
“When I was 19 years old I couldn't go to college because I came from a poor family. We had no money, so I went to the library at least. Three days a week I read every possible book. At the age of 27 I have actually completed almost the entire library instead of university. So I got my education in the library and for free. When a person wants something, they will find a way to achieve it.
I would like to remind you one thing:
Humans should never forget that we have been assigned only a very small place on earth, that we live surrounded by nature that can easily take back everything that has ever given to man.
It costs absolutely nothing in her way to one day blow us all off the face of the earth or flood the waters of the ocean with her single breath, just to remind man once again that he is not as all-powerful as he still foolishly thinks. "
Photo: Bradbury as a child, Los Angeles Times
Lot the most important books can’t be checked out Lawyers don’t even use books anymore all computers more manipulation of history & facts just saying . Of course Lawyers take an oath to the crown anyway legalism our Lord spoke against sad so much history lost as well as not taught purposely sadly . I think now we have become a product of society than society of us if makes sense everything Co-cocked twisted reduced to nothing really people suffer from Illusions than fact of one another governments full greed an psyops of wars communism music fake reality’s now we are fighting for real food an DNA rape of morals a true God creator seems seed of cane to destroy all Gods creation God warned us about these things an he’s coming soon Come Lord Come Amen.
lovely --- reminds me much of Francie in "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" where the library was her "ticket" out of the small-thinkin' pettiness that plagued so many around her an' the drudge of poverty (even when she came home ta the cold water flat--because that book with 'er meant escape!) Matilda too... One of the daughters (fergit which one) in the All of a Kind Family series also... All these young girls spoke ta me so I wuz never ashamed at bein' a bookworm. All the treasured books an' the free libraries were gold--that no amount of money could replace... Today's libraries are a joke--some have fawncy "social rooms" or "game rooms" takin' place of the books AN' they git ridda the good stuff (given away! classic novels, hardbacks!) an' whuts left on their rainbow lgbtq__! shelves for kids an' teens is near-unspeakable, sure ain't "literature!" (an' oh, graphic novels are front n' center on the dis-splays--not that I'm all-against 'em, but I'm not so sure comics need ta be feature presentations)...
Grateful ta learn this--I had no idea the articulate wordsmith Bradbury never made it ta college--but clearly (via Fahrenheit 451) books were very dear ta him indeed.
A truer statement couldn't'a been said:
"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings."
Heinrich Heine
(who wuz, fwiw, a jew who converted ta christianity after seein' the writin' on the wall... as many like him did before an' after---ta save their proverbial... "heinies!")