1 That would account for what the animal did just now.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 2 Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 3 He lay in the high barn loft all night, listening to distant animals and insects and trees, the little motions and stirrings.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 4 Out of a helicopter glided something that was not machine, not animal, not dead, not alive, glowing with a pale-green luminosity.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 5 How long he stood he did not know, but there was a foolish and yet delicious sense of knowing himself as an animal come from the forest, drawn by the fire.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 6 It was suspended for a moment in their gaze, as if to give the vast audience time to appreciate everything, the raw look of the victim's face, the empty street, the steel animal a bullet nosing the target.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 7 He smelled the heavy musk like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath, all cardamom and moss and ragweed odor in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 8 He imagined thousands on thousands of faces peering into yards, into alleys, and into the sky, faces hid by curtains, pale, night-frightened faces, like gray animals peering from electric caves, faces with gray colorless eyes, gray tongues and gray thoughts looking out through the numb flesh of the face.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright