Mechanisms of Joy

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