“All floated upon an evening carrousel, with fitful drifts of music wafting up here and there, and voices calling and murmuring from houses that were whitely haunted by television.”

— Ray Bradbury , book The Golden Apples of the Sun

The Wilderness (1952)
The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

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