Ray Bradbury's Biographer
Sep. 24th, 2014 09:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stormdogI'm very glad I attended the talk given by Ray Bradbury's biographer, Sam Weller, at Parkside tonight. I think it really was the next best thing to meeting the author himself. It was sad listening to Weller talk about so many stories and details of Bradbury's life, but enlightening and fulfilling too. At the end, I asked whether my perception that Bradbury felt increasingly out of place in his own time were correct. Weller agreed that was true to some extent, but that Bradbury was also a man who dearly loved life, and that never changed. That makes me happy.
Weller talked about having been hooked on Bradbury from a very young age; his father read "The Illustrated Man" to his mother when she was pregnant with him. I love that story; it's rather like the one I tell people about attending my first sci-fi convention (Gencon, at the very same Parkside) in utero. But it also makes me sad that I don't have anyone to read to.
That's silly, I know. But I just love the idea of reading to someone. Not even a child necessarily. Someone to and with whom I can enact a piece of literature that deeply moves me, sharing it through transliteration into as intimate a medium as the human voice.
Weller talked about having been hooked on Bradbury from a very young age; his father read "The Illustrated Man" to his mother when she was pregnant with him. I love that story; it's rather like the one I tell people about attending my first sci-fi convention (Gencon, at the very same Parkside) in utero. But it also makes me sad that I don't have anyone to read to.
That's silly, I know. But I just love the idea of reading to someone. Not even a child necessarily. Someone to and with whom I can enact a piece of literature that deeply moves me, sharing it through transliteration into as intimate a medium as the human voice.
