I have been thinking about your statement all week.
Which Bradbury?
Bradbury as a young man when he wrote it? When he was struggling to feed his family?
Or the elderly Bradbury who was the the same curmudgeon amplified?
I can’t say, even though I met and spoke with him a few times. What I can write is that I am sure that the young man was different than middle aged man, and he was different that the elderly man- except when he was reading from his works. Shortly before his death I saw him do a reading. He was wheeled in and sat behind a table. I was saddened at first, but as he read he became younger and younger. As he neared the end, his energy waned and returned to his actual age, but for a brief time he was a much younger man.
