Mechanisms of Joy

These mechanisms never fail. They are eternal, like a perpetual motion machine and the snows on the summit of Kilimanjaro. Because the person who created them, one of the best inventors of extraordinary things in the world, Ray Bradbury, a writer, a science fiction author, a poet, for whom creating mechanisms of joy is as habitual a craft as it is for a baker to make bread, or for a winemaker to make wine.