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. “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, Bradbury warns us against the autumn
people, who, he argues, 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
