The Martian Chronicles

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  "What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.
  And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain.
  And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping ... (continue)

  "What did Time smell like? Like dust and clocks and people.
  And if you wondered what Time sounded like it sounded like water running in a dark cave and voices crying and dirt dropping down upon hollow box lids, and rain.
  And, going further, what did Time look like? Time looked like snow dropping silently into a black room or it looked like a silent film in an ancient theater, one hundred million faces falling like those New Year balloons, down and down into nothing.
  That was how Time smelled and looked and sounded."

  E non c'è null'altro da aggiungere

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  Klytia said on Aug 28, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Amazing. Moving. The new fronteer is up in the space, but the human race never changes: a bunch of wonderful tales concerning the depths of man's soul, facing his fears and loneliness.
  Bradbury is a definitely a master.

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  Orso Paziente said on Sep 27, 2010 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  "There's your answer, Captain."
  "I don't see"
  "The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals.
  The animal does not question life.
  It lives.
  Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. You see -the statuary, the animal symbols, again and again. ... (continue)

  "There's your answer, Captain."
  "I don't see"
  "The Martians discovered the secret of life among animals.
  The animal does not question life.
  It lives.
  Its very reason for living is life; it enjoys and relishes life. You see -the statuary, the animal symbols, again and again."
  "It looks pagan"
  "On the contrary, those are god symbols, symbols of life.
  Man had become too much man and not enough animal on Mars too. And the men of Mars realized that in order to survive they would have to forgo asking that one question any longer: why live?
  Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.
  The Martians realized that they asked the question 'why live at all?' at the height of some period of war and despair, when there was no answer.
  But once the civilization calmed, quieted, and wars ceased, the question became senseless in a new way.
  Life was good and needed no arguments."

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  Zapp Brannigan said on Apr 23, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Paperback
• ISBN-10: 0965017478
• ISBN-13: 9780965017473
• Publisher: Quality Paperback Book Club
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2001
• Dimensions: 3290 mm x 2129 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
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