Story of the Day: The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury. A husband and wife are settling down to sleep. Everyone seems to have experienced the same dream, one that announces the world is going to end. Since I started these Story of the Day posts, no writer has appeared more frequently than Ray Bradbury. He and Hemingway are the two writers I have read most consistently since my early teens. The Last Night of the World was first published in Esquire in 1951 when the world was still cold with dread of the atom bomb. And, like a lot of his stories, it has weathered well. The narrative moves almost entirely in dialogue and is beautifully measured. The result is sort of sweet and yet oddly haunting, too. By framing the truly incomprehensible as a question, horror can be met with calm acceptance. The end, it seems, is inevitable; the lights will simply go out. Meanwhile, the details of life need attending. esquire/fiction/fiction/ray-bradbury-last-night-of-the-world-0251
Posted on: Sun, 27 Oct 2013 19:01:40 +0000
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