Ocupation: Author
Life: February 20, 1926 - June 23, 2013
Birthday: February 20
Death: June 23
He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.
source: Richard Matheson (1954). “I Am Legend”, Greenwich, Connecticut : Fawcett
topic: Book, Men, Mind, Leftovers, Perishing, Potpourri, Scraping