2015-02-27
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AN INTERVIEW WITH RAY BRADBURY, A FAMOUS SCI-FI WRITER - Я читал,что ВЫ напечатали роман«451°»по Фаренгейту»за9дней навзятой на прокат пишущей машинке.
-That’s right. At UCLA library, downing a room underneath the library. -Вы по-прежнему печатаете на машинке?
-Oh yes. I don’t have a computer. A computer’s a typewriter, so I don’t need two. I just need one.
- Я знаю, что у Вас двойственное отношение к технологии….
-No I don’t. All I ask is that you tell yourself why you need a thing, and then you use it. Why do you need a telephone? Well, if you’re in business, a computer is a very important part of your business, especially if you’re selling things to people and you have 200-300 sales in a day. At the end of the day your computer adds it up for you- that saves a heck of a lot of time, doesn’t it? So you look at each machine and say, ―How do I use this?’ If you use it for stupid or silly reason like the Internet is often used by men- it’s a toy. You can play with a toy, but don’t play with a toy all the time. That’s all I’m saying.
-Вы все так же получаете 300 писем в неделю?
- Sometimes it’s 300, sometimes just 100 or 200.
- И на все отвечаете?
-I try to pay attention to all those letters that are really sincere. -Вы как-то говорили, что работаете над новыми книгами.
-Yes, four new novels. One is a mystery, one Is a fantasy, one is a sequel to Dandelion Wine and one is a romance. A little bit of everything.
- Кстати, о предложениях. В интернете ходят слухи, что ВЫ пишите о предложение романе «451° по Фаренгейту».
.-Never! Never. Never never never. It answers its own questions. -Как вы представляете себе будущее?
-Fine! We always make do, don’t we? There’s a lot of things that have been terribly evil in the twentieth century but we’ve managed to overcome them. We are going back to the Moon and then we’re going ahead to Mars sometime in the next
20 years. I wish I were going to be around to see it. Maybe I will be, my miracle. You never know.
