ENG 208 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Oedipus Complex, Ray Bradbury
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Remarkable how the nursery read the thoughts in the children"s minds and created life to fill their every desire. The children thought lions, and there were lions. The children thought zebras, and there were zebras. Or, no, you were never too young, really. Anytime they want, they can bring someone back from the dead in the nursery. The nursery is their reality now things are most real to them in there. They can bring back a version of their parents that they like, and they will be more real to the kids than the dead version of their parents. We can think of the children as being innocent to a point, but there"s a conspiratorial aspect to them: the house was full of dead bodies, it seemed. None of the humming hidden energy of machines waiting to function at the tap of a button.
