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This has driven me nuts for years. If you help me solve this mystery, you will guarantee your place in Heaven.

I read a Ray Bradbury story as a child and I recall so little of the details but carry the memory with me. But I cannot remember why.

If I find it, and can read it again with adult eyes, I will divine why.

It involved a house of architectural interest. A person was walking through it and could see movement out of the corner of his eye but when he turned to see, the movement was gone. It turned out, he was seeing himself thanks to some kind of optical illusion in the architecture. In the end, the house folded in on itself somehow.

I recall no supernatural details as described in the There Will Come Soft Rains or The Veldt.

Does this ring any bells?

Thank you.

Felicia
 
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Hi Felicia,

it doesn't sound like a Bradbury story, but it DOES sound like the Robert Heinlein story called "- And He Built A Crooked House".

Read about the story here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%...uilt_a_Crooked_House


... and read the whole story here:
http://web.archive.org/web/200...nlein/heinlein1.html


- Phil

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You are my hero.

User-error as usual. I simply remembered it wrong. Thank you so much for taking the time to reply.

And for being a reader.
 
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Originally posted by feliciacago:
You are my hero...


Not for nothing do I wear my underpants on the outside!


- Phil

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Originally posted by philnic:
Not for nothing do I wear my underpants on the outside!

Well, I was going to mention something at the Mexican restaurant last August, but I thought perhaps you had a reason.

Underpants is a good word.


"Live Forever!"
 
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Big Grin


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I thought it was kinda cute.


Cori
 
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