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Thank You, Ray Bradbury
20Jun09
Most people have heard the story of how Ray Bradbury wrote Fahrenheit 451 on a pay typewriter in the basement of the UCLA library. I’ve always loved that story, and it makes me feel very proud to work in an industry that inadvertently contributed to the creation of such a great work of literature. Then [...]
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