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-there will come soft rains
-embroidery
-the pedestrian
-the invisible boy
-the luggage store

what is the message ray is giving in these stories?

"Please read my stories, all will be revealed."

i have read them -.-

By far the most difficult is "Invisible Boy." It reads like a simple kids' story, but I never understood it as a kid and had to have it explained when I was older, despite being an avid Bradbury reader.

The first two are the most obvious: they are anti-nuclear war stories, showing the real human devastation brought on when the forces in power choose to employ these methods.

I thought the 2nd one 'there will come soft rains' was about technologically advanced houses gone wrong.

It wasn't the house gone wrong, it was the situation. With the occupants gone, the house had no one to serve.

embroidery:

everything hangs by a thread

A stitch in time saves nine.

The childhood experiences of Ralph Ellison.

You've got me stumped! I guess I will have to read Embroidery once again.

Hey, those are good ones!

Hey, man, everyone is talking about my family and friends. So I thought I'd better check in to see what's happening here.

Not!

Actually I got all wrapped up accidentally in a ball of twine and have been trying to get untwined and now have only been simply stringing along to see what sort of yarn I could come up with and, darn, I've got EMBROIDERY!!

And to think, I actually stayed home for the Holidays.

Ray's short story, Embroidery, still ranks as my favorite end of the world stories, or end of a particular civilization, or country, or political system, or simply, the beginning of the war to end all the aforementioned. It is a grand demonstration on such a micro scale of Ray's talent and genius.

Ball of twine you say. Wait until I am home and can post a photo of what was once the largest ball of twine in the country located in Darwin, Minnesota.

OH NO!!! Not the slideshow, again!

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Here's the world's largest ball of twine. Being played with by the world's largest ...