When I first read Bradbury, I missed an awful lot of references coz I was young (about 14) and hadn't read much fiction, let alone literary classics. I had no idea The Kilimanjaro Device was about Hemingway, for instance - I'd probably not even heard of him!

About six years later, my girlfriend and I returned to her house after a trip to the cinema, where her mother made a reference to sprinting out before the National Anthem plays. I suddenly realised, then, that "The Anthem Sprinters" was about people who really did that! It was quite a turning point.