“From childhood I have been afraid
of mummers. It always seemed
an extra shadow
without face or name
had slipped among them…”
Poem without a Hero (1963)
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Usher II (1950)
The Martian Chronicles (1950)
Source: Fahrenheit 451
Context: They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures; there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.

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“Thanking people is dangerous business. A name always slips your mind.”