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Mon 25 Oct, 2004 12:26 am
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I read a book in high school about a boy that journeys from his village in a forest to the outskirts as a "rite of passage" and when he gets to the outskirts he sees big buildings and streets and he has "memories" of lights and people and cars in the city. The place he is in is New York City after a "great fire" (which I believe is supposed to have been something like a nuclear explosion). The remaining survivors ventured into the forest. The names of rivers and monuments are misspelled because of the corrosion over the years.
I believe that this book deals with the collective unconscious, or at least aims to deal with it. This book was written pre-1945 which makes the "great fire" part intriguing. I think it was 1939.
Does anyone have any idea of what the name of this book is? Thanks.
Sounds a bit like By The Waters of Babylon. But I thought that was a short story.
Bradbury wrote it I believe.
When I read it in High School we had to try and figure out where he had started (we figured somewhere in the Poconos), the student I was working with often joined me on my walk to school; when we were trying to figure out what his "daily mileage" may have been, he told me "remember, not everyone can walk as fast as you".
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