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NoxRiddle t1_j95nm6u wrote

Reply to Nuclear shadow, Nagasaki by allez05

I remember first learning about the nuclear shadows when I was around 8 from a WW2 book. And about that same time, I was starting to explore literature, and I found the short story There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury. (If you're unfamiliar, the story is about an automated house in the future, where the automation continues despite the inhabitants missing - then about halfway through the story, they describe a shadow of a boy and a ball in mid-throw burned into the side of the house.)

I remember the dread I felt when I read the line in the story about the shadow, that "click" because I understood what it meant, and so that has always stuck with me.

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