《Illustrated Man》作者： - Ray Bradbury 【EPUB】

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The Illustrated Man Ray Bradbury Contents Prologue: The Illustrated Man The Veldt Kaleidoscope The Other Foot The Highway The Man The Long Rain The Rocket Man The Fire Balloons The Last Night of the World The Exiles No Particular Night or Morning - - - - - - - - The Fox and the Forest The Visitor The Concrete Mixer Marionettes, Inc. The City Zero Hour The Rocket Epilogue PROLOGUE: The Illustrated Man ?? IT was a warm afternoon in early September when I first met the Illustrated Man. Walking along an asphalt road, I was or the final leg of a two weeks’ walking tour of Wisconsin. Late in the afternoon I stopped, ate some pork, beans, and a doughnut, and was preparing to stretch out and read when the Illustrated Man walked over the hill and stood for a moment against the sky. I didn’t know he was Illustrated then. I only knew that he was tall, once well muscled, but now, for some reason, going to fat. I recall that his arms were long, and the hands thick, but that his face was like a child’s, set upon a massive body. He seemed only to sense my presence, for he didn’t look directly at me when he spoke his first words: "Do you know where I can find a job?" "I’m afraid not," I said. "I haven’t had a job that’s lasted in forty years," he said. Though it was a hot late afternoon, he wore his wool shirt buttoned tight about his neck. His sleeves were rolled and buttoned down over his thick wrists. Perspiration was streaming from his face, yet he made no move to open his shirt. "Well," he said at last, "this is as good a place