The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope

Name: The Haunted Computer and the Android Pope
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: Рэй Дуглас Брэдбери

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Рэй Дуглас Брэдбери

Год написания книги

2018

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And all the dark that self employs

Will teem—so travel then with joys.

Or else in ruins consummate

A death that waited long and late,

And all the burning towns of blood

Will shake and fall from sane and good,

And you with ruined sight will see

A lost and ruined Rome. And thee?

Cracked statue mended by noon’s light

Yet innerscaped with soul’s midnight.

So go not traveling with mood

Or lack of sunlight in your blood,

Such traveling has double cost,

When you and empire both are lost.

When your mind storm-drains catacomb,

And all seems graveyard rock in Rome—

Tourist, go not.

Stay home.

Stay home!

Poem from a Train Window (#ulink_f7a4e23e-2c4f-5f8a-bb7a-12d2cd3bed58)

I’ve seen a thousand homes go down the tracks

Away, away …

Late night or early morn,

There goes the house, all white, where I was born.

My traveling train

Gives back to me by moon or noontime’s rain

The house, the house, the house

Where I’m reborn again.

As common as sparrows in flight,

There flies by my front porch and me,

Out of sight, out of sight.

We are common together: common house, common weather,

Common boy on a bike on a cool dark night lawn,

Sinking in clover,

Or boy on brick street at dawn, roofing a ball:

Annie over! Annie over!

Where I’ll pop up next, Peoria or Paducah, I don’t know;

All I can say is:

Here I come, here I come,

There I go, there I go!

Always the same boy, bright-eyed as a mouse,

Always the same folks on the porch of that house,

Swinging by in the light,

Drowning deep in the night,

There they drift, there they fly

At the train whistle’s cry:

O good-bye, O good-bye.

Lawn and porch on the run; boy’s face like the sun

Looking up through the rain

As again and again, the boy who was me