The Sleep of Reason

Bradbury’s sensitivity to the supernatural opens chapter six with his fictional reflections on his long-dead father. His sense of immortality and creative purpose opened out from a request by director George Cukor and Katharine Hepburn to script Maeterlinck’s The Bluebird as an international film project. The chapter goes on to track his conviction that intellect is a danger to creativity and his belief in fiction writing as an intuitive search for truth. Bradbury’s anti-intellectual tendencies and his self-taught views on visual art surface in mid-1970s Los Angeles Times book reviews he published on photojournalist Archie Lieberman, comics creator Stan Lee, and the photography of Yoshikazu Shirakawa.