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...other tales, Author Bradbury cultivates what he calls the sense of "infinite interfusion." A boy is "taken over" by disease germs and himself becomes a bad seed whose touch can kill a pet canary. Exploring his musty attic, a man dons an Edwardian striped blazer and boater, is promptly whisked backwards through time to the lazy summer afternoons of his youth. A 12th century armored knight tilts tragically with a 20th century locomotive that he takes for a dragon. The Shore Line at Sunset is a simple parable on the vagrant power of beauty, but its mermaid heroine is evoked...
...Seed-Time. In 1948 Lysenko got official Communist endorsement for his "theories," which meant that anyone who challenged them was setting himself up against the party. A new wave of dismissals and Siberian imprisonments engulfed rival biologists and geneticists. In 1956, in the period of destalinization, Lysenko suffered partial eclipse. Party chieftains criticized his theories, and official journals exposed reports by his supporters as fakes; many of his victims were rehabilitated and reinstated. Soviet biology began to recover as a science...
...much. "I never have the slightest doubt about my safety in a plane until I walk into an airport terminal and realize that there is a thriving industry in this building selling life insurance policies . . . What they do by this power of suggestion is that they plant the seed of doubts into an already chicken human being...
Soncor Bird. Indian children, when they are not worm hunting, turn out willingly for school, before long learn to write respectable essays. One of them: "I am the soncor bird. I live in the forest where there are no people. I eat the pasarochllom seed. Wherever I see the pasarochllom seed, that is the thing I will eat a lot of. My coat appears like a cloud. My coat is white dotted like the clouds. My children appear like the sky. I live with my children in the forest. My children are very much crybabies if their mother leaves them...
During the brief remainder of his life, Zhivago goes to seed...