Something Wicked (Passages)
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All of this really adds to the danger of the book, but I definitely believe it. I mean, when Will's father catches them, he doesn't even punish them! Bradbury plays Jim and Will off of each other nicely, so we really care about these two kids, and early on in the book, right? We see how they stand up for each other. I wonder if Stephen King read this before writing It and his other kid-centered novels.
Jim and Will and Mr. Dark's carnival, with a carousel that can speed up or reverse time. What do you think, would you ride on the carousel? That carousel, wow, was a trip.
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Either direction, seemed totally out of control. But can't you remember being that age, wanting to be older, at any cost? And then the older people, they wanted to be young again! Miss Foley, and Cooger! With two older brothers, I always wanted to be bigger than I was, just to keep up with them. Of course, nowadays, I still feel like I'm 16 inside So maybe I would take a ride? I'd want it to be reversible, though. But I like where I'm at in life, too. I have a pretty good life.
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And the thing is He wants to be young again, climb up the ladder on the outside of the house! But with age comes wisdom, yeah? His father was surprising, I liked him a lot. Took a lot of courage for him to stand up to the freaks, to Mr. Yes, for a bookworm he was incredible under pressure.
I definitely want to talk about the freaks! Oh, the freaks, yes, let's. They gave me nightmares, even now. We typed the above at the same time. He stuck with both of us. That scene under the metal grate was intense. Thank God there's no clown. The Dust Witch, though, is creepy. She flies through the night, searching for the boys. How do you hide from that? I guess I have to pick up The Illustrated Man now. I didn't know that was a collection of stories based on the art on his skin. Have you read that? Now I feel like a hack of a Bradbury fan, especially with so many of these being big titles, ones we surely knew about.
Which of the freaks scared you the most? They all had unique abilities, and the ending was pretty intense. I think the Dust Witch gave me the most chills.
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She could see without seeing, she could fly, she was terrifying. Did she remind you at all of the moths in Mieville's Perdido? I keep thinking that Bradbury had an influence on so many people. King for sure, why not Mieville? I think Dark scared me the most, he was so convincing, the temptations. But the witch was intense, too. But let's talk about Bradbury the writer, for a sec.
He's so skilled, and I think he loves messing with his readers. He's so playful, and skilled. At dawn, a juggernaut of thunder wheeled over the stony heavens in a spark-throwing tumult. He devotes an entire chapter to a single moment of peace, then shatters it with a storm on the very next page.
I'd never have thought to write something like that! It was funny, and heart-breaking, all at the same time. He's not just a great storyteller, but a poet, too. Such a unique voice. Do you think there's anyone out there like him today? Other than you, of course.
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I was just thinking about that, and reading this for the first time ever, but revisiting his voice after some 30 years, not many people. Have you read Benjamin Percy? I think he gets there at times. Stephen Graham Jones, maybe? Clive Barker now and then. The moon rolls by to look at you down there, with its idiot face.
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They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action? How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.
Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies? The seal-barker, the laugh-shouter, half the time he's covering up. Times come when troughs, not tables, suit appetites. I've known a few. You work twice as hard to be a farmer as to be his hog.
I suppose it's thinking about trying to be good makes the crack run up the wall one night. A man with high standards, too, the least hair falls on him sometimes wilts his spine. He can't let himself alone, won't let himself off the hook if he falls just a breath from grace. But no man's a hero to himself. I've lived with me a lifetime, Will.
I know everything worth knowing about myself-" "And, adding it all up?
As they come and go, and I mostly sit very still and tight, yes, I'm all right. Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain.
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They butter it with pain. They set their clocks by deathwatch beetles, and thrive the centuries. They were the men with the leather-ribbon whips who sweated up the Pyramids seasoning it with other people's salt and other people's cracked hearts. They coursed Europe on the White Horses of the Plague. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale. Some must have been lazing clowns, foot props for emperors, princes, and epileptic popes.
It defines and sets up the loss of innocence theme readers will feel for the remainder of the story. What nationality is a storm? NEW Lost and Found. And do you like how I'm pretending to be you this month, asking all the questions? They said to trust them, their readers would understand it, they could follow me.
Then out on the road, Gypsies in time, their populations grew as the world grew, spread, and there was more delicious variety of pain to thrive on. The train put wheels under them and here they run down the log road out of the Gothic and baroque; look at their wagons and coaches, the carving like medieval shrines, all of it stuff once drawn by horses, mules, or, maybe, men.
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