When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place th…

Ray Bradbury
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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!? ✨ Ray Bradbury (1962). Something wicked this way comes: a novel, Bantam
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