![]() ![]() October 1 - 7: Rocket Summer - Third Expedition Bradbury's stories are not an escape from reality they are windows looking upon enduring reality." We are shown normality, the permanent things in human nature, by the light of another world and what we forget about ourselves in the ordinariness of our routine of existence suddenly bursts upon us as a fresh revelation. their portrayal of human nature, in all its baseness and all its promise, against an exquisite stageset. In Enemies of the Permanent Things: Observations of Abnormality in Literature and Politics, Kirk states: "What gives their cunning is. ![]() Russell Kirk feels that the greatest strength of The Martian Chronicles is its ability to make us look closely at ourselves. The Earthman conquers Mars.and then is conquered by it, lulled by dangerous lies of comfort and familiarity, and enchanted by the lingering glamour of an ancient, mysterious native race. It is here the invaders have come to despoil and commercialize, to grow and to learn - first a trickle, then a torrent, rushing from a world with no future toward a promise of tomorrow. ![]() Bradbury's Mars is a place of hope, dreams and metaphor - of crystal pillars and fossil seas - where a fine dust settles on the great, empty cities of a silently destroyed civilization. ![]()
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