Ray Bradbury, how you use your story-telling capabilities to their optimum. That sentence created an instant pause in the midst of a most bizarre empty house nearing its end. There are moments where the world seems to sit still, and I think he captured that in that one sentence. Delightful.
The people are non-existent, so he turned this electronic house into our "person", we, I think, begins to relate to the house because we are prone to desire to relate in order to understand. But at the same time, it seems so empty and mechanical and still compared to our world of emotions and movement. I suppose that's what makes it eery.
In its very essence, this story, the way I understood it, captures the fleeting nature of things. Like this summer, between traveling and working...BOOM...gone. The only difference is this story gives no relief or hope. It is rather dismal, but that is the way of Bradbury's genius. He makes you think and consider the possibilities of this world and what it could become and the influence we have on it in our current time despite writing stories about the "future".
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