Greetings Everyone!
Ray Bradbury, the well-known science fiction and
horror writer, describes autumn in his book The October Country as:
“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain....”
In another book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury warns us against the autumn people, whom he claims are soulless, evil things that seek to ensnare humans.
But
Bradbury is wrong about that.
For there are autumn people who have souls and are not
evil; they love autumn and celebrate the death of the year and the renewal that
always follows.
JLS
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