We’ll Always Have Paris

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Ray Bradbury. We’ll Always Have Paris

Contents

Introduction: Watching and Writing

Massinello Pietro

The Visit

The Twilight Greens

The Murder

When the Bough Breaks

We’ll Always Have Paris

Ma Perkins Comes to Stay

Doubles

Pater Caninus

Arrival and Departure

Last Laughs

Pietà Summer

Fly Away Home

Un-pillow Talk

Come Away with Me

Apple-core Baltimore

The Reincarnate

Remembrance, Ohio

If Paths Must Cross Again

Miss Appletree and I

A Literary Encounter

America

About the Author

By Ray Bradbury

Copyright

About the Publisher

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RAY BRADBURY

We’ll Always Have Paris

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Sometimes, when he ran by, people remembered for a moment. Sometimes they squeaked a note or two, or tapped their feet, self-consciously, but most of the time the only motion they made to the music was to reach in their pockets for a dime.

Once, thought Pietro, once I had many dimes, many dollars, much land, many houses. And it all went away, and I wept myself into a statue. For a long time I couldn’t move. They killed me dead, taking away and taking away. And I thought, I won’t ever let anyone kill me again. But how? What do I have that I can let people take away without hurting? What can I give that I still keep?

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