![]() Bradbury’s story came to mind, of dancing and dancing and dancing, and writing and writing and writing, so as not to be dead. The day after diving into The Illustrated Man for the first time, I read about Cancer hitting David Bowie. “At three in the morning, I write, I write, I write!” ![]() When Laurent asks Bradbury what he does in the morning, Bradbury says he writes. So we dance, we dance so as not to be dead. When Bradbury asks how he can do that, Laurent replies: “I work from ten to twelve hours, sometimes fourteen,” he says, “and then at midnight I go dancing, dancing dancing until four or five in the morning and go to bed and sleep until ten and then up, up to work by eleven and another ten or twelve or sometimes fifteen hours of work.” ![]() Bowie image credit: In “ Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead,” Ray Bradbury’s introduction to The Illustrated Man, he starts with a story about Laurent, a waiter in Paris, who spends his life between working and dancing. ![]()
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