![]() ![]() ![]() Then the older lighthouse keeper tells the younger a theory he has about how the fog horn was invented. Maybe I wasn’t going to be as transported, at this age, as I was a decade or more ago. Here were two lighthouse-keepers oiling the lamp and chatting in a fairly mundane way about their job. ![]() The very first story in the collection was “The Fog Horn”, one of my very favorites.Īs I started to read, I was a little worried that I had over-romanticized Bradbury’s stories in my memory. Now, getting ready to introduce them to my own children, I picked up a collection of his early stories and sat down to read. ![]() When I did discover his writing, of course, I had my mind blown in little controlled explosions by stories like “A Sound of Thunder”, “The Rocket Man” and “The Fog Horn”.īut I hadn’t read any of his stories for years. I was much too literal as a teenager and probably wouldn’t have known what to make of his fantastic, thought-provoking, stories with their lyrical language. I came a little late to the stories of Ray Bradbury and that’s probably a good thing. ![]()
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