The veldt
"The Veldt" is a short story written by Ray Bradbury that was published originally as "The World the Children Made" in the September 23, 1950 issue of The Saturday Evening Post, later republished in the anthology The Illustrated Man in 1951. (wikipedia.org)
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A veldt is an open grazing land in Southern Africa.
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In 2012, shortly before author Ray Bradbury's death, Canadian musician deadmau5 produced a song titled "The Veldt," including lyrics by Chris James based upon the story. The music video, released after Bradbury's death, is dedicated to him and shows a young boy and girl wandering through an African veldt and witnessing several plot points from the story, including vultures, and a lion eating an unseen carcass.
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Rima is a character from the novel, Green Mansions, by William Henry Hudson, published in 1904. Rima was a forest girl with dark hair and a smock of spiderwebs, who could communicate with birds in an unknown language. Rima also appears in Ray Bradbury's short story, The Veldt. This is a picture of the actress from the 1959 movie adaptation of Green Mansions.
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