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In just a moment X minus one. But first, some of the funniest

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situations you've ever witnessed occur every Wednesday
night when the devilish imagination of MC Jack

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Bailey sets to work on NBC's Truth
or Consequences. You won't believe it until

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you hear it, so listen in
tomorrow. Then another laugh session is in

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store later on with the wise and
witty Graucho Marx as he and contestants play

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You Bet Your Life, while for
the melodic note on your Wednesday evening schedule.

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It's music and fun on airtime with
Josel McKenzie. And now stay tuned

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Come down for Blast Off X minus five

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from the far horizons of the unknown come

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transcribed tales of new dimensions in time
and space. These are stories of the

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future adventures in which you'll live in
a million, could be years, on

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a thousand, maybe worlds. The
National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxies

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Science Fiction Magazine presents HE minus one
Tonight Hallucination Orbit by J. T.

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Macintosh. It's Choka stand by the
release pickup rocket. Yes, sir,

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We'll break Orbit in eight hours.
Have damage control pull the rods on the

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number three pile check leakage. Yes, sir, try and have the locks

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cleared of all unessential personnel when that
pickup rocket comes back. There's no point

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in making trouble. I understand,
sir. Pick up rocket a waste.

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Very well, take over, mister
Choker. I will be in my quarters

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if I'm wanted. Well now then, mister dan Berry, make yourself comfortable.

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I thank you. Can you care
for a drink Scotch and that bob

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Bourbon in the other No, thank
you. I cann could quite used a

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squirting liquor from a rubber bowel as
if I were oily. I'm daring,

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and you'd have a devil of a
time pouring from a bottle in free fall.

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Well, how are you enjoying your
trip? Very interesting? Very nice

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you to give me a lift.
You know it would have been eight months

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before another ship came along, a
lot more than that with the main Pluto

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beam station out, probably eight years. Really that long? I thought the

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whole round to Pluto was under eighteen
months. Yes, it is when the

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beam is running. To see mister
Danberry. We left Earth twenty seven days

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after the beam broadcast from Pluto station
broke. We've been spaceborne close to six

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years. I suppose that's why you're
in orbit around this planet picking up supplies

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or something. Eh oh oh,
this is a standard pick up for the

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space Beam service. We sent a
rocket down to take off a man who's

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been the only inhabitant of this planet
for a little over two years. Well,

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and I expect he'll be glad to
see you. Well, there's no

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telling. I know I would after
two years of duty. Mister Danberry,

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you might not know anything. Oh, psychiatric troubles, solatosis, it's from

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the Latin solas alone. Is that
much of a problem only in space?

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Here? Look a look through that
port seems empty. It is. It's

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empty of horizon, sky, sunlight, ground, It's empty of time,

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it's empty of people. You can't
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I see. But surely people have
been alone before spaceflying. Yes,

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but they have been on the same
world with other people, and that seems

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to make a difference. You take
a hermit on Earth, he may spend

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his life trying to escape civilization.
Put him on a deserted world. He

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turned psychotic. Is it a cure
culture put him back with people at least

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about forty people. That seems to
be the critical number. See, I

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have forty eight in this ship's complement. I could run her with about a

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but if I tried to, I'd
have psychos on my hands. Six months

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have to blast off. But then
every one of these men on the beam

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stations. They're all alone, aren't
they. That's right, well, then

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they must get it they do.
It wouldn't pay to leave more than forty

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men on a space station, and
less than forty is too dangerous. Solatosis

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can be homicidal. So they leave
one man. How he gets it all

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right, But you can snap him
out of it just by taking him back

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to Earth. That's why I like
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When the pickup ship comes back,
it can be pretty unpleasant. And

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what are they like? How does
it defect them? Well, so far,

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I've picked up about twenty eight space
station officers. I've seen twenty eight

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different sets of symptoms. I wouldn't
want the job of getting those guys out

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of their stations and into that pick
up rocket. Captain here, pick up

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rocket sick all right, mister choker, prepare to receive the pickuplert the psychiatric

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staff, and I'll be right there. Would you care to see them?

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Bring em inster Dan Barry, You're
welcome if you have a strong stomach.

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I don't think so, Thank you, Laurright, mister Chaka, as soon

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as the rocket is secured, make
a trajectory for the next station. Answer,

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that's Pluto station three. Carry on, huh, Pluto station three.

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That will be a honey of a
job. He has been on that lump

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of rock all by himself, or
close to six and a half years.

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Pluto Station three Daily Report, colinord
Space Officer. Everything is in fine shape.

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Through my port, I can see
Mars, Earth, Saturn, Mercury.

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M Ah, that little devil he's
hiding behind the sun. He's been

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quite furtive lately. Why I'm required
to record this report every day escapes me

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because it's quite obvious to any empty
headed brass hat at the Central office that

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not a word of this has been
worth the tape it's been recorded on for

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the last five and a half years. But if it amuses you, gentlemen

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to hear me, wander. After
all, you are paying for the tape.

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Oh, which gives me a fine
thought. I'm going to set the

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pickups through the whole station and leave
the tape running. That'll give you a

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daily report all day. So keep
on listening. Right now. I have

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the distinct impression that Earth is winking
at me rather suggestive lewd wink. It

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helps see the planets, doesn't it. Hmm? Oh, I thought you

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were reading. I was. You
know, if you hadn't been able to

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see the planets you would have been
a stray jacket case long ago. Who

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knows, I'm not one now you
don't anyway? Well, I think that

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so long as you talk sanely about
madness, you can't be so far gone.

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M It's out there somewhere, isn't
it? The rescue ship somewhere?

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How long now come it? Where
could they be now? If they started

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whenever the beam failed. I haven't
worked it out since the last time you

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lasked, but they could be very
close. If the beam hadn't failed,

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they would have been here long ago, wouldn't they. Oh? Sure,

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eleven months with the beam over six
years without it. Well, anyway,

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that triple time six years pay adds
up to quite a pile. M.

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You'll be set up the life when
you get back to earth, won't you?

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And at twenty nine I'll be rotten
with money. Oh well, it's

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been nice knowing you. That's because
of the others before you. I've learned

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a lot. I'll never talk of
the others, and above all, I'll

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never talk of any others to come. I'm sorry. Would you like to

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play chess? It's a long time
since we did. I don't think so,

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not anymore. I'm a little tired
of chess. Oh, I know,

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I know. I won't bother you. I'll go to my room.

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Color. Well, don't get upset. I'm not. I understand you're just

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tired of chess. You still listening, Gentlemen, that last few minutes might

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have been a little confusing. You'd
like to know who I was talking to,

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wouldn't you. I'm afraid you can't
hear her on the tape. That's

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una. Now I'll tell you what
she looks like. You might find it

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interesting. She's beautiful, but rather
cool. She always wears a white shirt

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and sharp creased green slack. She's
got a good figure, but in a

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calm sort of way. She plays
a good game of chess, although I

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beat her two out of three.
Times. Of course you know why you

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can't hear her on the tape,
But I still know too. That's point

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in my favor, isn't it?
That brings up an interesting question, gentlemen.

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Because I'm tired of Una, I'm
beginning to find her a long,

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cool, slightly unappealing bore. My
problem is how to get rid of her.

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I can't just tell her to vanish. She's a little too real for

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that. I dreamed up a ship
to bring her. I'll have to find

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another to take her away. Well
I might as well get to it.

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Oh no, No, I'm not
going to bother about the ship. It's

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too much mental effort. I'd have
to think up everything I saw, and

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frankly, gentlemen, I'm I'm too
tired. Maybe she'll take the hint A

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lot of them did, Susie did? And Alice uh? I remember Margie.

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There was a girl A load of
bricks had to fall on her head.

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Took me four weeks to get rid
of her. No, let Una

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figure her own way to get off
the station. Well she's gone. I

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thought she might. Her ship's gone
too. Well. All in all,

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I don't think Una was really very
satisfactory. One of these days, I'll

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start believing in them, and I'll
be really gone. Well, if I

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activate the main screens now, i'll
see a ship coming into land pretty soon.

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Every once in a while I have
a thought that when the ship really

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comes, I'll think it's make believe. Yes, there it is a small

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ship curving in for landing. I
suppose I could check on the detectors.

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I know they register anybody within a
hundred thousand miles. But I don't bother

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checking them anymore, because someday the
moment will come when I check the detectors

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and I'll see just what I want
to see. All the ship's coming in

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for a landing. Now i'll go
out to meet it. I'm rather interested

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to find out what the explanation will
be for the girl. Naturally it will

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be a girl. It's all right. You can take your helmet off.

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The ears all right in here?
You must be Baker. Oh, good

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heavens, no Baker was before me. Here. You can't be one of

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his dreams. Seven years late.
I'm ORed, colin ord. Where we

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go any further? Just how does
solutosis affect you? Well, that's new.

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None of them ever asked that before. It makes me see things that

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aren't there, and you know there's
nothing there. Mm. Sometimes do you

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know I'm here? I'm making a
point of not wondering about it. Well,

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one thing you can be sure of
this. Do you see this?

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This is a gun. I just
want you to know I'm not Heaven's little

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gift to lonely space station offices.
Isn't that clear? Oh? Yes,

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yes? What's your name? Elsa
cutterline? You want to know why I'm

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here? Of course, not particularly
what? Well, that's always the weakest

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part of the story. I don't
like to press it. Why don't you

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uh take off your space suit.
I'll tell you why, just the same

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I killed a man? Why and
how? It doesn't matter. I had

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access to an experimental ship I thought
if I disappeared for about So please don't

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labor over it. I'm not asking
questions. Why not? Well, when

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we get around to it, I
would be interested in the story you can

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concoct. For being dressed like the
cover of a magazine story in rather minimal

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clothing. It's been years since I
thought of anything like that. You must

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be a throwback. What are you
talking about? You know you're gonna have

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a tough time with that gun when
you get tired of holding it. It's

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a heavy gun. How long do
you think it'll be before I take it

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from you? After all, you
have to sleep. There's no door in

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the station you can lock that I
can't get in. I know. I

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just wanted to make sure you weren't
violent. I think I can get on

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with you. Ort mm, yes, yes, I see. The question

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is, my dear, whether you're
real or not? Well, oh,

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yes, but that doesn't prove anything. As a matter of fact, the

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realer you look, the worse off
I might be. But then there still

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is the remote possibility that you might
actually have killed someone decided to hide out

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on a space station. Shall I
tell you something else, Elsa, what

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I'm suddenly tired of the whole business. Breathe there a man with soul so

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dead. I'm sure you know the
rest of it. I would suddenly like

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to have enough people around me so
that I could be sane. I would

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like to find women as part of
life, instead of having them pop up

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here from the depths of my rather
pornographic subconscious. Ah, but you've shaken

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me, Elsa. Twenty four hours
ago, I was congratulating myself that solatosis

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hadn't really gotten me. But now
I don't know. Just don't try anything

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funny, or you'll find out whether
I'm real. Hard way anyway is the

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hard way. First, I'll go
out and have a look at your ship.

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Fourteen pounds per square inch air heat. Now I take a gasoline lighter.

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There the flame lights. But on
the other hand, if there was

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no lighter and I see it,
I could also see it burn when there

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isn't any air. As a matter
of fact, how do I know that?

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I can read a meter for air
pressure? And now that I look

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again quickly, I find I haven't
got a lighter in my hand, and

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as a matter of fact, the
pressure meter reads zero. There's no air

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on this ship. As a matter
of fact, there isn't any ship else.

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They's no more real than una.
All right, comin, old boy,

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Sit here and concentrate for about fifteen
minutes, and you'll be able to

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walk through the walls of this ship. Well, what did you find out

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there? You'd better leave. It
was a mistake. You're coming here.

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I'm sorry. No, don't come
any closer to me. Put down the

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gun back on morning. You'll keep
back. You see, it's no use.

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Oh you're a good shot. You
got me right between the eyes.

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But I couldn't feel a thing.
I can't let myself be shot. Now,

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can I give that to me?
Yeah? Now, remember, if

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you shoot me, nothing happens.
But if I shoot you, you die.

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Do you know that? Yes,
I know that. I'll give you

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about twenty minutes to get that over
stuffed figure back into that spacesuit and get

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off my planet. Frankly, I'm
getting tired of hallucinations. Tired. No,

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no, no, I'll keep that
after a while, I'll put it

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in a drawer. It'll stay there
until I forget it, and there won't

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be any gun anymore. From now
on, my overblown figment, there will

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be no more Else's, or Susi's
or Margie's. I am not going to

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give in to salatosis. Maybe maybe
I'll bring Una back. At least she

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could play chess. Pluto Station three
Daily Report, Colin ord Space Officer,

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Gentlemen, I have successfully fought off
salatosis for two days, and I have

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been alone. However, I'm afraid
I'll lose. As I watch my main

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scope. Now I see a ship
coming in again. I wonder what this

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one will be like. It's a
launch from a large your spaceship, maybe

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a lifeboat. Dorothy came in a
lifeboat. I wonder what this one will

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be like. I've got to find
out when she comes whether she's real.

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That's the key. As long as
I know if she's real. When I

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don't care anymore, that's when it's
really got me. The ship's down.

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Now there she comes out of the
airlock. I've got to find out whether

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she's real. Colin aud that's right. I'm doctor Lynn, a fourth star

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lines Marilyn Lynne. Very pretty.
You're going to tell me your story now?

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Or do I have to wait?
I'm not going to tell you anything

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till I've found out a little more
about you. Well, you're an improvement

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on the last one. At least. You're young and beautiful, and you're

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not fantastic, and you look intelligent. What do you mean, don't worry

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about me. I see things that
aren't there, particularly people. Oh so

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you don't believe I'm here? Would
you if you were me? Do you

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know I'm not here? No?
That comes with time, at least it

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always has so far. You mean, you've always proved to yourself that your

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visitors were mere fantasy with a struggle
interesting controlled solitosis. I never heard of

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it before. It's a pleasure to
meet you, mister Hud. No,

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No, that doesn't make you real. They all say that. Why should

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I want to make you accept me
as real? I don't know, but

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they all do. When will you
know? Oh? I can't say.

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Maybe in five minutes, maybe not
for hours. How do you do it?

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You don't shoot me to see if
if I die or anything like that,

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do you? No, nothing like
that. If I shoot you,

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you do die like the witches in
history. They'd die if they were and

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they'd die if they weren't. Your
mind has remained agile enough, naturally,

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I never heard of solatosis inhibiting intelligence. Would you like some coffee? Is

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that part of the test whether more
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No? No, that doesn't help. It would be very easy for

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me to make half what I thought
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nothing and pass it back. H
You look afraid? Why should I be?

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What am I doing? Am I
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No? Would you like me to
wash the cups for you when we're

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done? It won't prove anything.
Next time they were used, I could

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just imagine they were washed, couldn't
I Where are you going to find out?

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If you're real? My ship?
Go ahead? Good luck? What's

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she afraid about? It? Something
I said? None of the others were

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really afraid of me. I can't
tell yet, nothing's happened. The meters

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all read fifteen pounds to the square
in chair pressure. But that's no good.

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I can't tell if I'm reading them
at all. Oh, well,

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the walls solid enough. My hand
hurts. That doesn't prove anything. Supposing

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I open my face plate, if
there's no ship and no air, all

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right, my face plate's open.
I'm breathing air. And then again,

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on the other hand, my face
plate may still be closed. Maybe I

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only think it's open. I can't
tell. I can't tell that she isn't

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real. That means it's finally gotten
me, It gets everyone. I don't

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really know if anything's real, if
I'm real, if this space station is

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real, the planet, the universe, the galaxy. Maybe all life is

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in my mind. I think therefore
I am yes, I remember that from

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school. Oh, I'm tired.
I got to get back to the station,

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very tired. Close my face played
if I ever opened it. You

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get back to the station. Got
a headache, terrible headache. I'm very

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tired. Are you all right now
here? Drink this? What happened?

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You came in the station lock and
passed out? How how long have I

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been out? About twenty four hours? You're a very sick man, mister

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rowd. Huh. Reality very important
thing, isn't it. It's the most

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important thing there is to learn,
merely to you. Solatosis naturally affects what

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matters most to the individual. But
we needn't talk about that. But I

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know now you're not real. You
can't be, even though I feel you

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are. How did you decide that
I couldn't prove you weren't not on your

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ship. I'm too far gone to
figure out any test that'll work. But

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if you are real, then how
did you avoid solatosis? The only way

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there is. There are forty eight
men and women in the relief ship that's

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in orbit around your planet right now. I came down in the pick up

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rocket. We have well above the
critical number of people. I keep rational

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by knowing they're up there in the
orbit, And as soon as I'm ready,

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I'll take you back up there.
I suppose I can wait. I

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don't really care care if you're real
or not anymore. I know it'll take

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a long while before you care.
You sound sad. What's the matter.

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It's the way you look at me. What do you mean? What do

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you see when you look at me? What? You're strong? Sort of

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quietly beautiful? But my age,
you're wearing a tunic and slacks, and

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you don't have a wedding ring.
I noticed that that's what I thought you

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saw. I'm real, but not
your picture of me. I'm a doctor,

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mister Rord. All first contacts with
station offices are made by trained psychiatrists.

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I'm a doctor, and I was
a girl once, but that was

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forty years ago. I'm sixty six. You can't be Oh. Yes,

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it was very nice to be a
girl again. I could see myself in

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your eyes, and I almost felt
young again as I grow old. In

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the next few weeks, mister Rhud, you will be recovering. That will show