Yatterings

The postman brought me a copy of Ray Bradbury’s The Dragon Who Ate His Tail this week whilst it was snowing. Its a chapbook with three short stories, commentary by Donn Allbright and Ray Bradbury, artwork and also a film treatment from the 1990s.

The eponymous short story was publshed in the 1950s but its theme of facing up to our responsibilities is still true now, perhaps more than ever. I’m still reading this and mulling it over but it echoes Lydia Millet’s Oh Pure and Radiant Heart and its use of Fermi, Oppenheimer and Szilard to explore the implications of politics, war and science. (More on this as I’m just finishing the book at the moment).

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