{"id":15978,"date":"2012-06-06T15:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T22:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=15978"},"modified":"2012-06-06T15:34:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T22:34:42","slug":"ray-bradbury-in-sum-do-not-insult-me-with-the-beheadings-finger-choppings-or-the-lung-defiations-you-plan-for-my-works-i-need-my-head-to-shake-or-nod-my-hand-to-wave-or-make-into-a-fist-my-lun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/15978\/ray-bradbury-in-sum-do-not-insult-me-with-the-beheadings-finger-choppings-or-the-lung-defiations-you-plan-for-my-works-i-need-my-head-to-shake-or-nod-my-hand-to-wave-or-make-into-a-fist-my-lun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Bradbury: “In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger-choppings or the lung-defiations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whis\u00adper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been pondering where the spice in our culture has gone? Perhaps, as a woman of a certain age, I’m unable to see it, but I don’t think so. My deviant detector is fairly well-tuned and I’m drawn to the outsiders of the world because, well, I am one, but it’s very milquetoast out there these days. We wouldn’t want to offend anyone or their delicate sensibilities.<\/p>\n

Somehow I missed reading Ray Bradbury. Well, no, not somehow. That was pretty much a planned avoidance of the sci-fi genre in general because it tends to spawn cult-like followers. True story. And I’m not much into cults however clever they are. But today David Boaz at the CATO Institute posted the\u00a0Coda to the 1979 Del Rey edition of\u00a0Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, written by Ray Bradbury<\/a>. And while I’ve been pondering our collective love of the plain vanilla, I’ve concluded that it seems to have begun around the year this Coda was written. Either it was the death of disco or the election of Ronald Reagan but something went terribly wrong around that time.\u00a0I never read Bradbury, but this is quite lovely and also funny and has enough biting social commentary to make me appreciate the man’s sensibilities and shared appreciation of digressions. There are indeed many ways to burn a book.<\/p>\n

About two years ago, a letter arrived from a solemn young Vassar lady telling me how much she enjoyed reading my experiment in space mythology,\u00a0The Martian Chronicles<\/em>.<\/p>\n

But, she added, wouldn\u2019t it be a good idea, this late in time, to rewrite the book inserting more women\u2019s characters and roles?<\/p>\n

A few years before that I got a certain amount of mail concerning the same Martian book complaining that the blacks in the book were Uncle Toms and why didn\u2019t I \u201cdo them over\u201d?<\/p>\n

Along about then came a note from a Southern white suggesting that I was prejudiced in favor of the blacks and the entire story should be dropped.<\/p>\n

Two weeks ago my mountain of mail delivered forth a pipsqueak mouse of a letter from a well-known publishing house that wanted to reprint my story \u201cThe Fog Read more<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately I’ve been pondering where the spice in our culture has gone? Perhaps, as a woman of a certain age, I’m unable to see it, but I don’t think so. 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