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Originally posted by Salamander:
From A Medicine for Melancholy

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The sun came out.

It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color.

That one is from 'All Summer in a Day', not 'A Medicine for Melancholy'. (Perhaps you were referring to the whole book, but please note that there is also a short story with the same name.)

Just for the sake of it: now I will add a line from the short story 'A Medicine for Melancholy'

BRADBURY REMIXED

He stood on the curb, watching her drive off, the wind taking hold of her long, dark, shining hair. They had wakened one morning and the world was empty. A tear, large, luminous and beautiful, fell on his cheek. Another tear, larger and more lustrous, emerged from his other eye. His chin was wet. It was certain he had been crying for some minutes. And, everything considered, she's not much to look at. It's just she smells so good.

Now he had no body. It was all gone. It was under him but, but it was filled with a vast pulse of some burning, lethargic drug. It was as if a guillotine had neatly lopped off his head, and his head lay shining on a midnight pillow while the body, below, still alive, belonged to someone else.

The sun came out.

It was the color of flaming bronze and it was very large. And the sky around it was a blazing blue tile color.

'I have seen cows with this look', he said.

The End.

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Originally posted by Braling II:
OK. I'll post something in a day or two.

I say, time's up!

OK, since Mr Braling guessed last, it's his turn to post a new passage. If he so desires.

Let's see if he so desires.

Anon...

That's a rather short passage to quote.

OK. Here's the passage:

"No cars, so no fatalities."

Just a guess: "The Crowd"?

Nope.

A Miracle of Rare Device

No again.

Somewhere a Band is Playing?

Huzzah!

I just read that book (as I've noted elsewhere on the board) and whe I cam across that little phrase, I remembered Ray at one of his talks explaining why he didn't drive. In his youth,he apparently witnessed a fatal car crash...

Anyway, have a go, Phil!

"They saw something like a spirit smoke, a bloom of gunpowder blow drifting south and west."

Any guesses?

Can't quite place it. Perchance a clue.