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Way out in the country tonight he could smell the pumpkins ripening toward the knife and the triangle eye and the singeing candle.

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Ray Bradbury
Age: 91 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 22
Died: 2012
Died: June 6
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Waukegan
Illinois
Ray Douglas Bradbury
Tonight
Pumpkins
Smell
Triangle
Toward
Ripening
Eye
Triangles
Country
Pumpkin
Way
Knife
Knives
Candle

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