Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Illustrated Man



"You see, you have no mental evidence.  That's what i want, a mental evidence i can feel. I don't want physical evidence, proof you have to go out and drag in.  I want evidence that you can carry in your mind and always touch and smell and feel.  But there's no way to do that.  In order to believe in a thing, you've got to carry it with you.  You can't carry the earth, or a man, in your pocket.  I want a way to do that, carry things with me always, so i can believe in them.  How clumsy to have to go to all the trouble of going out and bringing something terribly physical to prove something.  I hate physical things because they can be left behind and become impossible to believe in."

-Ray Bradbury

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