October 17, 2022

 

Greetings Everyone!

The third week of October!

Ray Bradbury describes October in his book The October Country  as: “that country where it is always turning late in the year......where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. 

It is a country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun..... whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.....”

 
                                                                   

In another book, Bradbury warns us against the autumn people, whom he claims are evil & seek to ensnare human souls.  In his gothic tales, Bradbury’s autumn people are indeed evil. 

But there are autumn people who have souls & are not evil; they love autumn & celebrate the death of the year & the renewal that always follows.

JLS