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“we need not destroy the horrific whale of reality, we may lurk inside it with machineries, plotting our destinies and going our terror-fraught ways toward an hour when we can lie under those stranger suns and bask easy and breathe light and know peace.”

— ray bradbury, “the ardent blasphemers,” introduction to 20,000 leagues under the sea by jules verne

"do your own bit of saving. that way, if you drown, at least you'll die knowing you were heading for shore."

It was a quiet morning, the town covered over with darkness and at ease in bed. Summer gathered in the weather, the wind had the proper touch, the breathing of the world was long and warm and slow. You had only to rise, lean from your window, and know that this indeed was the first real time of freedom and living, this was the first morning of summer.

— Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine (William Morrow Paperbacks; April 23, 2013) (via Cultural Offering)

Ray Bradbury (1929-2012) - It Came From Outer Space, 1970

The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury

The Small Assassin, Ray Bradbury

The Martian Chronicles - art by Ian Miller (1979)

René Magritte, The Land of Miracles, 1964

'Yes, Mr. Douglas, insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.'

— Ray Bradbury, "The Meadow"