15 June 2011, 08:56 AM
feliciacagoPlease help me identify this story by Ray Bradbury
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
15 June 2011, 10:30 AM
philnicHi 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.html15 June 2011, 06:24 PM
feliciacagoYou 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.
16 June 2011, 01:15 AM
philnicquote:
Originally posted by feliciacago:
You are my hero...
Not for nothing do I wear my underpants on the outside!
16 June 2011, 01:10 PM
Doug Spauldingquote:
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.
16 June 2011, 07:02 PM
dandelionI thought it was kinda cute.