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“Pillar of Fire”은 레이 브래드버리(Ray Bradbury)가 쓴 SF 단편 소설로 1948년에 처음 출판되었다.
William Lantry는 수백 년 동안 묻혀 있다가 깨어난 죽은 사람이다. 그는 미래 세계에서 깨어났는데, 이 세계는 매우 평화롭고 윤리적이다.
미래 사회에서는 모든 시체를 화장하는 것이 관습이다. Lantry는 자신도 화장될 것을 두려워한다.
Lantry는 이 새로운 세계에 적응하지 못하고, 증오심으로 가득 차 있습니다. 그는 몇몇 사람들을 살해하고 화장장을 폭파시키는데…
이 이야기는 과거의 어둡고 폭력적인 면과 이상적인 미래 사회의 대비, 그리고 그 사이에서 방황하는 한 개인의 모습을 그리고 있다.


“Pillar of Fire” is a science fiction short story written by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1948.
William Lantry is a dead man who awakens after being buried for hundreds of years. He wakes up in a future world, which is very peaceful and ethical.
In the future society, it is customary to cremate all corpses. Lantry fears he too will be cremated.
Lantry is unable to adapt to this new world and is filled with hatred. He murders several people and blows up a crematorium...
This story depicts the contrast between the dark and violent side of the past and an ideal future society, and the image of an individual wandering between them.

Summary
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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 half down his throat, with withered moves of long-dormant muscles, wildly, wildly! And with this little air he could shout and cry! He wanted to have tears,…

Contents
Pillar of Fire
I. He came out of the earth,
II. The incinerator was open
III. The Salem flue exploded at six that morning
IV. It was but ten miles to the little town
V. They stood outside the morgue together