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Though it makes me mourn for life lost when I read it even now, I never cared much for “There Will Come Soft Rains”. It’s a story exploring how what we make cou
by philosopherNoob 2mo ago
Though it makes me mourn for life lost when I read it even now, I never cared much for “There Will Come Soft Rains”. It’s a story exploring how what we make could continue on without us (for a time). But “The Pedestrian” (1951) is included at the end. It’s the last two pages out of that six page PDF. I think that one’s more apt to modern life. I read that one ages ago and it unsettled me.
- kombookcha 2mo agoYou know what, you're right - The Pedestrian hit me much harder this time around than the first time I read it. God, I love Bradbury.
- brazzy 2mo agoWhat's the most unsettling to me is that the one thing that makes it less apt to modern life is the implication that at 8 PM, everyone is at home. Nobody still working or commuting.
- srean 2mo agoI relate strongly with The Pedestrian. I love going for long walks at odd hours. In the United State police's defence once I was walking all by myself at 3 in the morning in Mountain View, peeking and crouching among the bushes for good shots with my camera. A police car approached me. It ended up being a non-threatening conversation. It was early 2002. All in all quite surprising given my brown skin and then long beard. https://ibb.co/j9XFgjDS https://ibb.co/j9XFgjDS https://ibb.co/Y7VyGb1w https://ibb.co/Y7VyGb1w
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- inigyou 2mo agoI once sat on the side of a busy path - not a road! - remote controlling a silly Halloween decoration on the other side. Three times police officers checked I was okay. One person stole the battery out of it.
- mrguyorama 2mo agoI have a friend who often goes for walks at midnight or later, around a rather nice part of town. He gets the cops called on him regularly. It's insane.
- inigyou 2mo agoAnd what do the cops think?
- jandrese 2mo agoThere Will Come the Soft Rains feels like it was written right after a visit to the World's Fair back in the Atomic Era. A critique of the unlimited promises about the future but virtually no thought put towards the possible consequences of said future. It's a very post-war story.