And the Yeah, Hello everyone and welcome back to one thousand one classic short stories and tales. This is your host John

Hagadorn. Today a great story from Ray Bradbury called Pillars of Fire and I'll

clue you in on a few things first.

The Pillars of Cloud and Fire that inspired this story were first mentioned in

Exodus 13, shortly after Moses leads the Israelites out of the captivity in Egypt.

The narrative states that the pillar of cloud went ahead of them by day to guide their way

and the pillar of fire led them by night to give them light.

In today's story, a man named William Lantry awakes hundreds of years in the future after

having died in 1933. He awakes with a burning rage towards mankind and as he

learns more about this futuristic place it only grows. He discovers that the

graveyards of old have been destroyed and he was in one of the last ones

And now our story the pillars of fire by Ray Bradbury

He came out of the earth hating.

Hate was his father.

Hate was his mother.

It was good to walk again.

It was good to leap up out of the earth off of your back and stretch your cramped arms violently and try to take a deep breath

He tried he cried out

He couldn't breathe. He flung his arms over his face and tried to breathe. It was impossible. He walked on the earth. He came out of the earth, but he was dead. He couldn't breathe. He could take air into

his mouth and force it halfway down his throat, with withered moves of long-dormid

muscles wildly, wildly, and with this little air he could shout and cry.

He wanted to have tears, but he couldn't make them come either. All he knew was that he was standing upright, he was dead,

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