Dark They Were and Golden Eyed (Full Text) by Ray Bradberry

metallicman ^ | 18sep18 | Ray Bradberry

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I have found this version of the story “Dark they were and Golden Eyed” on the Ray Bradberry library portal in Russia, and I have copied it here exactly as found. Credit to the wonderful people at the Ray Bradberry Library for posting it where a smuck like myself can read it within China. And, of course, credit to the great master; Ray Bradberry for providing this work of art for our inspiration and pleasure. Full Text

Here is the full text of the masterpiece. I will let the reader read it and enjoy it themselves.

Dark They were, And Golden Eyed (The Naming of Names).

By Ray Bradberry

The rocket's metal cooled in the meadow winds. Its lid gave a bulging pop. From its clock interior stepped a man, a woman, and three children. The other passengers whispered away across the Martian meadow, leaving the man alone among his family.

The man felt his hair flutter and the tissues of his body draw tight as if he were standing at the centre of a vacuum. His wife, before him, trembled. The children, small seeds, might at any instant be sown to all the Martian climes. The children looked up at him. His face was cold. "What's wrong?" asked his wife. "Let's get back on the rocket." "Go back to Earth?" "Yes! Listen!"

The wind blew, whining. At any moment the Martian air might draw his soul from him, as marrow comes from a white bone.

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I'm listening to "The Blue River Waltz" by Jay Unger and Molly Mason at this moment. It is superb for relaxing after one of the ant-American Party's best efforts to derail the Republic.

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[arthurus]

Bradbury, perhaps?

[arthurus]

Bradbury, perhaps?