“Fall in love and stay in love. Explode. Don’t intellectualize. Get passionate about ideas. Cram your head full of images. Stay in the library. Stay off the internet and all that crap. Read all the great books. Read all the great poetry. See all the great films. Fill your life with metaphors. And then explode.”
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, Philip K. Dick The Silver Locusts, Ray Bradbury
“I’ve always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you’ve died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that’s a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don’t know or understand or want to understand.”
so I cannot stop thinking about this wonderful and bizarre Bradbury adaption about a robot grandmother a family receives to help them through the grieving period of the mother’s death. it never stops being weird but its sweet sentimental nature always shines through ♡
Read our book review for Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Everyone praises Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and after reading it, I do see the appeal. Read our book review and see whether or not this classic novel is for you and what the hype is all about.
Fahrenheit 451 Summary
Guy Montag is a fireman who burns books that are outlawed as well as the house that harbors them. But a conversation with his new neighbor 16-year-old Clarisse McClennan changes…
I’ve collected a bunch of my lettering pieces over the years and created one big giant project on Behance (link in source, come say hi). This here is an excerpt and the total number of artworks is 77!
Also been meaning to read more Bradbury. That’s always a good intention to keep, probably.
Lines?
“Why do boys want their windows open wide?”
“Warm blood.”
“Warm blood.” She stood alone. “That’s the story of all our sorrows. And don’t ask why.”
Three A.M. That’s our reward. Three in the morn. The soul’s midnight. The tide goes out, the soul ebbs. And a train arrives at an hour of despair…Why?
Of Note:
The haunted carnival story from which so many of my childhood fears & nightmares sprang. Even though I had never explicitly read it, the story feels like it just seeps through all young boys’ consciousness at a certain impressionable age.
I wish I had read it back then, on a chilly Fall day. There’s something about the power of a book when it’s read at the exact right time in your life. Better late than never though.
Book design with matchbook surface spine - Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel which presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them. By Elizabeth Perez.
Many times I find myself typing out a chapter, drilling myself, thinking that I must fit as much as I can into this vital milestone towards the completion of my story. But then I remember Bradbury.
