Comments on: Ray Bradbury at NASA JPL, 1971, reading his poem "If Only We Had Taller Been" (video)

By: winter67uk

winter67uk — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:54:00 +0000

“The dwarf sees farther than the giant, when he has the giant’s shoulder to mount on.” – Coleridge, riffing on nine centuries of previous ideas on the subject. Bradbury has more fun with it. Sagan seems to think so too.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 06:04:00 +0000

Up with this kind of thing.

By: noah django

noah django — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:32:00 +0000

There is no finer novel for a twelve-year-old boy to read than Dandelion Wine. I have not read him in many years, but he had quite an impact on me as a reader.

(pedantic aside: it really is a shame there aren’t any sound engineers over at Caltech.)

By: jaytkay

jaytkay — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 02:47:00 +0000

RIP Ray

I love his story of writing his stories on a rented typewriter in the library in LA.