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Hi tinkerbell, and thanks for the compliments on my northern humour. I happen to be a southerner, and I felt sure I wrote with a southern accent!

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Apologies for the faux pas. Must have been all that talk of Wensleydale cheese and malt loaf. Not that I've anything against northerners - no, indeedy. My significant other hails from Edinburgh and was out last night with his claymore bagging a haggis for our Burns Supper. I just wish he wouldn't talk to it ...

Thanks for your reply. I've not listened to those dramas, though I can imagine Soft Rains - the relentless echolalia of pots and pans and speaking clocks. Who needs billion-dollar movies with special effects and credit rolls as long as the Mississippi when we've Radio 4 churning out such sterling stuff?

Look forward to Something Wicked EVENTUALLY, and shall definitely make a point of visiting your site. Right now, we fairies (the winged variety) have chores to do. Equality hasn't yet reached downtown Twickenham ...

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...bagging a haggis for our Burns Supper. I just wish he wouldn't talk to it ...

Do you take that with neeps and tatties?

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Originally posted by Gwil:
...Arthur Machen, the Welsh writer of decadent fantasy and horror.

Machen is great - very dark. Recently read his The Great God Pan. Very Lovecraftian.

Interesting Bradbury tie-in: Machen had financial difficulties in later life, and they were ended by the literary appeal launched in 1943 for his eightieth birthday. The initial names on the appeal included T. S. Eliot, a writer whose work Bradbury disliked intensely.

Ferry dust can be found here.

Neeps and tatties here. Disgusting...

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Pavel, welcome back! Haven't seen you around these parts for a while.

Forgive me It's hard to read all the things in English.

Rather strange to me that Bradbury treat audio-production so kindly. But ok, let's wait for the other answers.

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Originally posted by Nard Kordell:
Tennessee it is!

Yay!


is it wrong to be this excited? Cause I'm really excited.

*is excited*

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Originally posted by Pavel Gubarev:
Nard, I have 3 questions. If you cannot take all of them, take the second and third or only third

1. Mr. Bradbury, don't you think that audio-books or radio adaptations spoil the books. I. e. listening does not gives the same feelings as reading, and you should never listen if you're able to read.

2. Mr. Bradbury, do you think that your books cannot be 100% translated to any language. And reader should learn english to enjoy your books most deeply?

3. Do you appreciate your 'philosophic' stories (such as 'The man' or 'Drink Entire') more that pure fantasy stories ('The jar', 'Skeleton')? Do you consider that some stories are meaningful, some not?

Drink entire is one of my favourites of his!

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Neeps and tatties...Disgusting

Oh, I don't know - I like turnips and taters.

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Aye laddie! The secret is to mix in some chopped scallions (spring onions to you) with the potato. This helps disguise the revolting taste of the wee beastie. A dram of single malt helps ...

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A dram of single malt helps...

A dram of single malt always helps - regardless of the problem. Smooooth!

Pray, tell me of your location, lass? Would it be Caledonia, then? Aye, Scotland is my favourite country. I want to migrate over so badly. Once there of course, I'll just let the haggis go by.

Over here in the New World, we have something just as disgusting - chitterlings!

The strange parts of animals that folks will eat!

My question is, What do you miss, Mr. Bradbury, that you find irreplaceable, that has been lost from Western culture as you have grown up?

On the rabbit (coney?) trail, Tomorrow evening I will be attending a Celtic Society Whisky tasting and dinner in honour of Bobby Burns day (which was yesterday, the 25th); complete with haggis, harp playing, and poetry! Hoot Mon!

Sounds like a grand time in the old town t'morrer night. Be sure there is a designated driver on the buckboard, Sundance!!

A question to Mr. B, "How is the work on F451 coming, w/ Frank Durabont." It is a masterpiece of literature that deserves only the best in all capacities if a remake is ever to be done.

Too oft, Mr. B's magnificence on page has been compromised to screen. The RBTh actually was more entertaining than many of the attempts of his works made by the Holywood interests. We all await this crowning production (if ever it is delivered) with bated breaths...

fjp451: Check out the video on the current "The Martian Chronicles/ Spielberg" topic in RESOURCES, for instance, located Page 1, half way down, for a Bradbury video answer on that one...