... attention more than fifty years after the initial publishing. One of Bradbury's continuous improvements was to add more detail to his stories as he could between later published editions of a given story or book. While he did in fact add more vivacity to "Soft Rains", as in the case of refining the description of the mechanical robot mice that cleaned the unoccupied house (Eller 251), he failed ... to account for the simplest of things such as where the sickly dog with sores had come from, whom the house recognized by voice when it whined outside and allowed it to enter ... is also pre...

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