Here find a wonderful exercise in Bradbury's deft craft of poetic imagery.

Who else could devise such a tale of three ladies in rocking chairs, embroidering one late afternoon, that will keep your eyes and attention completely affixed on the threads that they sew into their lovely patterns?

Even that which comes to displace all the serene events before the reader's eyes, will but turn him to look even deeper still into the delicate embroidery coming forth from the flutter of their quick fingers.

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