M.S. Bellows, Jr. on Nostr: Just finished Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine." It slew me. It went down not like ...
Just finished Ray Bradbury's "Dandelion Wine." It slew me. It went down not like dandelion wine but like pomegranate molasses, so dense with imagery and feeling it hurt to read more than a few lines at a time. And although it is straight literary fiction, it also weirdly is a kind of inverted SFF, telling of a world (early 20th c. small-town America) so utterly different from ours that it could be another planet. Bradbury's Mars feels more familiar than his 1928 Waukegan. I feel enriched and beautified and melancholy and homesick and broken, all at once.
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