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The Pedestrian
"The Pedestrian" is a short story by best-selling science fiction author Ray Bradbury. This story was originally published in the August 7, 1951 issue of ''The Reporter'' by The Fortnightly Publishing Company. It is included in the collection ''The Golden Apples of the Sun'' (1953).
==Summary==
In this story we encounter Leonard Mead, a citizen of a television-centered world in 2053.〔This is the year given in the original ''The Reporter'' version as well as in the 2006 ''Match to Flame'' anthology. The time settings 2052 and 2053 have also been used, which at times has created an internal contradiction with the year given in the "last year's election" sentence later in the story when it was not adjusted as necessary.〕 In the city, roads have fallen into decay. Mead enjoys walking through the city at night, something which no one else does. "In ten years of walking by night or day, for thousands of miles, he had never met another person walking, not one in all that time." On one of his usual walks he encounters a police car which is possibly robotic. It is the only police unit in a city of three million, since the purpose of law enforcement has disappeared with everyone watching TV at night. Mead tells the car that he is a writer when asked about his profession, but the car does not understand, since no one buys books or magazines in the television-dominated society. The police car or its occupants struggle to understand why Mead would be out walking for no reason and so decides to take him to the Psychiatric Center for Research on Regressive Tendencies. He is forced to get in the car. As the car passes through his neighborhood, Leonard Mead in the locked confines of the backseat says, "That's my house". There is no reply.
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