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Originally posted by Linnl:
Yes. You know the story.
Would you like to name it, or let another have a go?

Let another.

Just poking my head in for a moment, so will throw out my first thought and then I'm off to other obligations and will check in on the morrow.

Is it "The Great Conflagration Up At The Place"?

Braling II asked

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Is it "The Great Conflagration Up At The Place"?

Good guess, but its another story.

"The library was a deep warm sea of leather smell.."

As with Doug, let someone else. Braling II, you know this one!

Nice choice in short story Linnl...

OK, I've got it now, Nora.
Anyone else want to have a go?
I'll not be able to check in here for a day or two...

whats the story with the monk chasing the entity to tell it about god ? the martian chronicles ?

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Originally posted by harvey101blind:
whats the story with the monk chasing the entity to tell it about god ? the martian chronicles ?

Could be "The Fire Balloons", which is in some editions of The Martian Chronicles.

Thanks philnic , I should find out today if it's in the one the library is holding for me .
.......
....on another note i just reread 451 and i always new it was a great warning and depiction of my lifetime . but i never noticed that ... i think.... what he was saying was that because of the 20th century and it's mass , it's ultimate awareness , television , travel whatnot ,,,, that everything had to fall apart , to be done again , not only could every average individual not handle it , and so welcomed the walls and the pills and mindlessness , but it was a shock to our humanity . an overload . . . . so in the book the slate is wiped clean , with the hopes to take a second , more informed this time , step out of the darkness ?

or maybe that it's just the doomed cycle of civilization ?

451: I think it's both of those things, and also the story of one man who realises/decides that it's time to bring about change.

SAX-A-MA-PHONE....SAX-A-MA-PHONE!!!!!!

was it good or bad that he burnt the chief ? is it enough that he didnt burn all of them ?

...checking in here after a few days in the cellar.
It seems we've drifted off topic a bit.
May I suggest we go back to the story?
a few days ago, Isaid I knew the answer (and left a clue), but wondered if anyone else would like to guess?

The Haunting of the New, a story I didn't care for on RBT.

The Name the Ray Bradbury story quote was

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"One wanted to lean through and sniff wild seas of flowers, touch harvest of peach maiden girls, hear the machinery of bees bright-stitching up the glamorous airs."

And The Haunting of the New is the title.

Doug its your turn, and thanks to all who guessed and clued-in.