Ray Bradbury by A Story of Love

Author:A Story of Love [Love, A Story of]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2011-12-12T02:17:25+00:00

as if this might go on forever, and she seated, working on her papers as if she, too, would be in this room and this particular peace and happiness forever, when suddenly the courthouse clock struck. It was a block away and this great bronze boom shuddered one’s body and made the ash of time shake away off your bones and slide through your blood, making you seem older by the minute. Stunned by that clock, you could not but sense the crashing flow of time, and as the clock said five o’clock Miss Taylor suddenly looked up at it for a long time, and then she put down her pen.

“Bob.” She said.

He turned, startled. Neither of them had spoken in the peaceful and good hour before.

“Will you come here?” She asked.

He put down the sponge slowly.

“Yes.” He said.

“Bob, I want you sit down.”

“Yes’m.”

She looked at him intently for a moment until he looked away. “Bob, I wonder if you know what I’m going to talk to you about. Do you know?”

“Yes.”

“Maybe it’d be a good idea if you told me, first.”

“About us.” He said, at last.

“How old are you, Bob?”

“Going on fourteen.”

“You’re thirteen years old.”

He winced. “Yes’m.”

“And do you know how old I am?”

“Yes’m. I heard. Twenty-four.”

“Twenty-four.”

“I’ll be twenty-four in ten years, almost.” He said.

“But unfortunately you’re not twenty-four now.”

“No, but sometimes I feel twenty-four.”

“Yes, and sometimes you almost act it.”

“Do I really.”

“Now sit still there, don’t bound around, we’ve a lot to discuss. It’s very important that we understand exactly what is happening, don’t you agree?”

“Yes, I guess so.”

“First, let’s admit that we are the greatest and the best friends of the world. Let’s admit I have never had a student like you, nor I had as much affection for any boy I’ve ever know.” He flushed at this. She went on. “And let me speak for you — you’ve found me to be the nicest teacher of all teachers you’ve ever know.”

“Oh, more than that.” He said.

“Perhaps more than that, but there are facts to be faced and an entire way of life to be considered. I’ve thought this over for a good many days, Bob. Don’t think I missed anything, or been unaware of my own feelings in the matter. Under any normal circumstances our friendship would be odd indeed. But then you are no ordinary boy. I know my self pretty well, I think, and I know I’m not sick, either mentally or physically, and that whatever has evolved here has been true regard for your character and goodness, Bob; but those are not the things we consider in this world, Bob, unless they occur in a man of certain age. I don’t know if I’m saying this right.”

“It’s all right.” He said. “It’s just if I was ten years older and about fifteen inches taller it’d make all the difference, and that’s silly,” he said “to go by tall a person is.”

“The world hasn’t found it so.”

“I’m not all the world.” He protested.

“I know it seem foolish.

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