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[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] mossy_@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

getting Ray Bradbury vibes from this comment

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You might misremembering it, as it's more akin to Kurt Vonegut. This phrase is frequently used in his Slaughterhouse-Five, one of my favorite pieces of fiction.

[–] mossy_@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Dang, I was misremembering it. It's been a while since I read Slaughterhouse 5

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

No problem, really. Even better, reading it now can bring you even better experience and understanding of these themes. I didn't have it in my school's curriculum and I read it in my 20s, and I don't believe I've exhausted it at that time in my life. There's something magic sense in his prose I do feel I won't find until I have me hairs completely gray. So I find it perfectly okay to reread it and maybe find new thoughts you haven't got before to enrich thyself. See if you can give it a chance. In some contexts it just huts different.