A sketch from 'The Garbage Collector' from Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories from 'The Golden Apples of the Sun'. The garbage collector tries to imagine how to go about his grim task after the advent of a nuclear bombardment.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
The Garbage Collector
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Golden Apples of the Sun
A sketch from 'The Garbage Collector' from Ray Bradbury's collection of short stories from 'The Golden Apples of the Sun'. The garbage collector tries to imagine how to go about his grim task after the advent of a nuclear bombardment.
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This was a difficult story to read considering the recent tragic events in Hati. I don't know what to say about this story other than the subject of nuclear holocoust must have been on Bradbury's mind quite a bit.
Bradbury often returns to the end of the world by fire.
The essential question is whether a man can compromise his moral life for the necessities of day to day work. We all make a thousand mall compromises in a career, that bring us step by step away from the proper center of our focus. Our culture tells us that certain things are crucial, and should be important, and slowly we accept and buy in to these notions. but is there a final step against which we must resist?
Workers in factories hat manufacture warheads and weapons must ponder this. I know when i worked for a company, an ISP, that tacitly supported the distribution of pornography via "news groups" that I was conflicted between my own moral sense and the need for my family to have a secure living. I am glad I am no longer in the position of having that dilemma.
Great points brother. I think C.S. Lewis offered a few ideas that may be in line with your thinking:
1. The smallest and seemingly most trival of choices we make in this world may possibly have the greatest of consequences in eternity.
2. The road to hell may very well be a gradual slope, with few warnings or sign posts.
Thanks for your comments!
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