Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Farenheit 451

Everyone in the household is sick. Today after work when others were napping, I read. I was surprised to find I'd never read this. Of course I found something in it with which to relate.

It was the bum's grandfather that really moved me. Bradbury's language always gets me going. My favorite of his writings is Dandelion Wine. 451 had a similar flavor. I think that was made me catch my breath at the mention of the grandfather. I'm not a philanthropist, I'll probably never have enough money to make a big difference. But the two paragraphs that describe the grandfather and the grandfather's philosophy and ethic echoed my own.

I'm not as good as a well written piece of surreal fiction, but the thing about Bradbury is that even though his premises are fiction, the people he places there are real.