Ray Bradbury Tribute In His Own Words

With Ray Bradbury's passing earlier this week we lost not only a great imagination, inspiration, and interpreter, but also a great story teller. With scores of tributes flying across the Internet and the blogosphere, OTR has found none better than this, Bradbury's brief account of his experience that led to "The Fire Balloons."

Indeed, greatness lies in simplicity.

N.B.  The short story is one of eighteen published in Bradbury's The Illustrated Man, published in 1951

H/T to Instapundit