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Speaker 1: M hmm, Come down for blastart X minus five four

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Grade two X manus one fire from the far horizons

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of the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in

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time and space.

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Speaker 2: These are stories of the future adventures in.

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Speaker 3: 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

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with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding science fiction, presents

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One Tonight, the Ray Bradbury story entitled and the Moon

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Be Still as Bright.

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Speaker 4: The first three expeditions from Mars left Earth in a

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mushroom of flame, arked through the atmosphere, and finally dwindled

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the tiny specks in the big eye of the Mount

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Palomar telescope, and then were lost to sight forever. The

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pre arranged landing signals flashed back to Earth, and then

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the radios went dead. One after the other ships had

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disappeared and were never heard from again. But still the

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rockets came. The fourth expedition emerged from the silent gulfs

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of space, angled down toward the floating red disc of Mars,

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down into an orbit.

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Speaker 2: As the order came to land, the last blast of

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the bow.

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Speaker 4: Jets broke red against the blue desert sands, and the

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ships slid to a halt at the edge of a

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vast city that reflected the icy glare of the moonlight.

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For a while, all was still.

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Speaker 2: All right. Pacio, open the air lock, I said, fresh air.

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It's cold out here. Who cares?

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Speaker 5: We got here?

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Speaker 2: I thought?

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Speaker 6: I never hit solid ground again. He helped out a

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fire Captain while.

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Speaker 2: He is freezing. Later, we have work to do. Oh

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smell that air? Why you could get drunk on it?

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Say there's an idea.

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Speaker 6: Why don't we break out a bottle of elbry figs.

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Speaker 4: There will be no drinking done till we're secured.

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Speaker 2: But we're landed, Captain.

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Speaker 4: Three other expeditions landed and disappeared within twenty four hours. Now,

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we're not relaxing security till we find out what happened

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to them. What do you mean, maybe, Martian Sender, you're

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an archaeologist.

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Speaker 2: How old you say they are? I can't tell.

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Speaker 4: So I studied them more closely. It's a kind of

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engineering we couldn't duplicate on Earth. Well, I'm not interested

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in the architecture now. I want to make sure there's

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nothing there that might be dangerous. It's a Hathaway in Yes, sir,

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I want you and Spender to take a reconnaissance party

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into the city and find.

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Speaker 2: Out what's there. We'll set up camp here.

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Speaker 4: No man is to go more than fifty feet from

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this rocket, and there'll be no celebration. To Hathaway and

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his party report back in the sea bottoms, the wind

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stirred along faint papers, and from the mountain's great stone

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visites looked upon the silvery rocket and the small fire.

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The sky was black overhead as the two racing moons

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threw knife edge double shadows on the desert.

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Speaker 2: All right, come and get it.

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Speaker 4: You got these jerk He saw us smothered in cold

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chicken bags.

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Speaker 6: Good, I thought it was home, I couldn't he, Hey, Captain,

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is the Hathaway's back Wilder?

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Speaker 2: Oh, yes, well they're here, was Hathaway.

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Speaker 7: Well, most of the city's dead, Spanish says, has been

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dead a good many thousand years. Would we found one

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part about a mile over to people were living in

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it last week's or people martians?

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Speaker 2: Why are they not dead?

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Speaker 4: They found bodies, thousands of bodies. They hadn't been dead

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more than ten days.

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Speaker 2: One of they diets. You won't believe it. What killed them?

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Chicken pox? Chicken pox? Yes, where could they get chicken

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pox from earth? Oh? Then the other rockets did get

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through it.

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Speaker 7: Yes, I don't know what the Martians did to them,

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but I sure know what they did to the Martians.

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They gave them chicken pox and wiped them out. They

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just didn't have any resistance to in earth disease.

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Speaker 2: I think of it, Captain.

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Speaker 4: The race builds itself for a million years, refines itself,

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does everything it can to give it self respect and beauty,

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and then it dies of What it's like saying the

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Greeks died of mumps, or the proud Roman Empire collapsed

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because of athletes's foot. We didn't even give them a

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decent excuse for dyeing. We just gave them chicken pot. Then,

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to get hold of yourself. You didn't see those bodies, Captain,

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I know it must have been a shock. You need

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a rest, little relaxation. The Martians are dead. There's nothing

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 6: Hey, you hear that the Martians are all dead.

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Speaker 2: Come on, let's break out a bottle over.

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Speaker 6: How about a case?

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Speaker 2: Good lord?

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Speaker 4: They have to do that now, isn't there time later

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to throw old beard cans into the canals, And.

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Speaker 2: You're an idealist. They're not.

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Speaker 4: All they know now is that they're safe. Little shouting

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won't hurt you think too much.

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Speaker 6: I was safe on Mars the first rest man or more,

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we're gonna celebrate.

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Speaker 2: Twenty bottles were opened and drunk.

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Speaker 4: The voices got louder, the earth laughs and shouts echoing

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across the empty Martian sands. Spender listened to the window

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over his ears, cooled whispering. He felt the land getting cooler.

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The stars grew closer very near. The air smelled clean

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and new. He looked at the cool ice of the

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white Martian buildings over there on the empty.

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Speaker 2: Sea lands.

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Speaker 6: A warmer.

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Speaker 2: Hey, what do we do with this empty bottle? Satan stupid?

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There's a two cents to bars away.

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Speaker 6: Wait, wait out at that building. Two to one in

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a bucket, and he went right through that window. You're right, evos,

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couple or nothing on the next shot.

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Speaker 2: Put that bottles down, bigs.

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Speaker 4: Oh there, mister Spender.

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Speaker 2: Up smashing those windows.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I said, difference a plents hours Now, I guess

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I can do anything more that I want.

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Speaker 4: Drop that bottle. I'll lock your teeth up, eh, and

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just watch me.

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Speaker 2: I warned you what you spender if I hit him?

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Speaker 4: He's crazy, Captain, he just walked on the slot man, Spender,

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you come with me.

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Speaker 2: Now. I suppose you explained that was the idea of

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the noise.

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Speaker 4: The drunken bra friend of the man attired. This has

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been a long trip, and you have a different way

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of seeing things.

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Speaker 2: Oh I'm seeing things all right. I'm seeing how we'll

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ruin Mars.

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Speaker 4: We'll rip it up and rip the skin off the

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way we've already ruined Earth.

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Speaker 2: Is that why you hit the yess?

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Speaker 4: I couldn't stand the idea of them watching us make

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fools of ourselves, and the Martians they're dead, they're all dead,

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but they know we're here. Doesn't an old thing always

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know when a new thing comes. We'd come a long

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way to smash their windows and spit in their wine.

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Well maybe you're right, but I'm still going to find

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you fifty dollars for that fight. Oh come on, Spender,

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sucking your chin, we'll go back there and play happy.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: They moved out into the moonlight across the desert. They

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made their way into the dreaming dead city. The light

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of the racing twin moons glinted on the barrel of

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a pistol, the long blade of a machete, gurgling shape

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of a raised bottom. The wind blew in from the

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dead sea bottom and brushed through the silvery wire filigree

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of the towers. Strange music drifted down to the double

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shadowed streets of thin, haunted music that played as it

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had played through the uncounted years of time. Nobody moved.

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The moon's held and froze them. The wind beat slowly

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around them.

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Speaker 6: Ah, hey, boy, in the city heads, I just want

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to make a little eyes. I'm kind of a celebration

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of business anyway.

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Speaker 4: Come on, they built this city thousands of years ago,

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and now where are they?

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Speaker 2: How do they die? Who chairs?

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Speaker 4: That's good enough for me, Lord Byron want Lord Byron

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a nineteenth century port He wrote a poem that fits

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this city might have been written by the last Martian point.

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So we'll go no more a roving so late into

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the night, Though the heart be still as loving, though

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the moon be still as bright. For the sword out

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wears it she and the soul outwears its breast, and

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the heart must cause to breathe, and love itself must rest,

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though the light was made for loving, and the day

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returns too soon.

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Speaker 2: Yet we'll go no more, a roving by the light

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of the moon without a word. The Earth then stood

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in the center of the city. It was a clear night.

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Speaker 4: There was not a sound except the music of the wind.

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At their feet lay a tile court worked into the

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shapes of ancient animals and images. They stood there, silvered

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by the double moons, beneath the crystal towers of Mars,

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and the Eggs was sick, and the sour stench of

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liquor filled the cool air. The men of Earth had

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come to Mars, and Spender turned and walked away into

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the city alone in the moonlight, never once stopping to

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look back. It was a morning that might have been

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a Monday, or a Tuesday, or any day on Mars.

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Biggs was on the canal rim, his feet hung down

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in the cool water, soaking while he took the sun

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in his face.

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Speaker 2: Hey what are you doing back here, Biggs? Didn't you

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go out with the search party? Yeah, I come back.

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I got a blister? Oh yeah, here, what do you mean?

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Look a chack?

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Speaker 5: You see that?

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Speaker 2: Anyway? I had enough searching. Four days hunting for that

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screwball Spender didn't find him. Huh ah, good riddance, Oh

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my feet. I'm gonna soak him in the canal. If

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I was wilder, I wouldn't worry about that nuts spinder.

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Let him go as a cut pot. Anyway, here's a

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little foggy upstairs.

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Speaker 5: I guess, hey, why don't you take.

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Speaker 2: Your feet out of that canal? Bigs.

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Speaker 4: I gotta make coffee out of that water.

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Speaker 2: Coffee?

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Speaker 4: You call it stuff coffee. I had a motorcycle once said,

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drift grease and taste it.

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Speaker 2: But he look over there where by that bush? There's

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someone there. Hey, it's in. Hey, hey, spender, Spender, he's

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coming over when he stay lost, that crazy jerk, Hi

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Spender A long time, no see, I love Cherikey. I've

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been exploring some ruins? Are you and them ruins? You're

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like a dog in a boneyard? That's a matter. I

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want just say something. Well, you bend up in the hills.

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Speaker 4: What would you say if I told you I found

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a Martian?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, where? Never mind? Let me ask you a question.

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Speaker 4: How would you feel if you were a Martian and

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people came to your land and started to tear it up.

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Speaker 2: I know how I feel.

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Speaker 5: I've got Cherokee bled me. My grandfather told me a

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lot of things about the way they kicked the Indians

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around in the Oklahoma Territory. If there's any Martian around,

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I'm all for him.

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Speaker 2: How about you, Biggs.

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Speaker 4: They're dead, They're all dead. There's a good thing too well.

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I found a Martian up in a dead town on

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the hills. I've been reading their books and they're easy

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to understand. I've learned their language. And then I found

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this Martian.

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Speaker 2: I brought him here. Now I don't see no Martians.

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Speaker 4: I'm the last Martian. What are you saying, Biggs, I'm

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going to kill you?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 4: Try it out.

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Speaker 8: What kind of a lousy joke is that? I don't

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put that gun away? You're kidding, eh, I spend your.

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Speaker 2: He's dead, you killed him. You can come with me, Cherokee.

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You're an Indian. You know how the Martians with fuel.

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You can be with me in this.

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Speaker 5: You killed me.

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Speaker 2: You just you just killed me. He deserved it. You're crazy,

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maybe I am, But you can come with me. Go

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it's you for what?

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Speaker 6: Go?

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Speaker 2: I get out of You're crazy murderer with all of them.

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Speaker 4: I thought you'd understand. I thought you'd remember what happened

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to your own people.

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Speaker 2: You can hire. You're crazy murdering. Don't reach for the gun, Spender, Spander.

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Speaker 4: Hathaway to break out the arms locker issue pistols, rifles

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and grenades. Yes, sir, and you'd better get the Bible

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out of a navigation chess to have to bury these

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two partially you start digging a grade. How about, Spender,

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We don't have to go up in the hills and

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find them. Just let me get them with my bare hands.

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Speaker 2: Crazy murdering, loudness kill man is sick. You must be

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sick my eye. I grab a shovel and stop digging.

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Speaker 4: Spenders saw the thin dust rising in the valley, and

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he knew the pursuit was beginning. The sun burned farther

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up the sky, and the blue sand drifted lazily across

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the sea bottom below.

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Speaker 2: He sat beside a quiet pool ten thousand years old

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and held the silver book.

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Speaker 4: Through the house played the strange wind music of ancient

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mass and he heard voices whisper in his mind.

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Speaker 2: I hear you. I've always heard you, even down there

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on earth. Don't no, I won't run. What's the use

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live live foot four to see them tear down your

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samples and.

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Speaker 4: Put up hot dog stands. They've seen me now, they

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know I'm up here. There's wilder.

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Speaker 2: Now I've got to write my sights. You kill funny.

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Speaker 4: He hasn't ordered them to use grenades. They could love

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one right up here and blow me the bit. Maybe

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the Captain thinks I'm too nice to be blown to bits.

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He wants my death to be clean, just one bullet

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hole in me, nothing messy.

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Speaker 2: And why because he.

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Speaker 4: Understands me, the only one of the cup whoever did well.

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At least I can do the same for him. Kill

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just one bullet in his head, a nice clean death.

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Speaker 2: Kill. All I have to do is pull the bitter

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down the sunder.

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Speaker 4: Bender?

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Speaker 6: Are you? I hate you?

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Speaker 4: Captain?

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Speaker 2: What do you want? H? TROO? All right?

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Speaker 4: Well up, leave your gun down there and keep your

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heads up. That's quite a climb. You wouldn't mind if

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I sit down? H How long do you think you

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can hold out until you're all dead?

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Speaker 2: Oh? Why didn't you kill all of us this morning

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when you had the chance you could have? I know

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I got sick but I started killing people.

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Speaker 4: I realized they were just fools and I shouldn't be

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killing them, but it was too late, So I came

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up here where I could get angry again.

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Speaker 2: Why did you do it? But I was a kid.

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My folks took me to visit Mexico City.

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Speaker 4: I'll always remember the way my father acted loud and big,

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and my mother didn't like the people because she thought

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they didn't wash enough. I can see my mother and

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my father coming to Mars and acting the same way.

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Speaker 2: Anything that's strange is no good to us.

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Speaker 4: We aren't fit to take over this planet.

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Speaker 2: But to kill two men, how would you.

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Speaker 4: Feel if a Martian spit on the White House floor?

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Speaker 2: You know you haven't acted very civilized yourself.

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Speaker 9: I'll kill you all off either, that'll delay the next

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rocket five years, and then i'll kill them too. And

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if I'm lucky, i'll live to be sixty, and I'll

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meet every expedition that lands on Mars.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'll be very friendly. I'll explain our rocket blew

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up one day, and then i'll kill them off. I'll

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save Mars for half a century, and by then maybe

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the Earth people will give up.

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Speaker 2: And yet you're out numbered. We already have you surrounded.

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In an hour you will be dead.

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Speaker 4: I found an underground passage.

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Speaker 2: It'll take me back in the hills Wilder.

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Speaker 4: I'll go back there, and then i'll pick you off

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by one. Listee. Well, it's a nice town. You've got

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his spending, it's beautiful. I'd like to live here.

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Speaker 2: You can join me. If you'll not like them, why

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go back to them, Captain, I'll show you what a

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good life these people had. I'll ball.

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Speaker 4: No, there's too much shirt blood in me. I may

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even agree with you about all this, but that does

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not change what I must do.

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Speaker 2: You won't stay.

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Speaker 4: No, this is your last chance, Spender. Look, you're sick, now,

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come along with me. Quiet, No, no one last thing.

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Speaker 2: If you win, do me a favor. Try to see

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that they don't tear this planet apart. Right.

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Speaker 4: If it helps, just think of me as a very

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crazy fellow who went for served one summer day.

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Speaker 2: Be easier. I knew that way. I'll think that over

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so long, Spender by Captain good luck.

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Speaker 4: The men spread out again, walking and then running on

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the hot hill side, places where there would be sudden

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cool grottos that snowed of moss, and sudden, open blasting

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places that smelled of sun or storm.

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Speaker 2: The men ran and ducked, and ran and squatted in

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the shadows.

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Speaker 4: Brain Captain Wilder hugged the rock worn by the sun

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a gas, for the air was thin and not meant

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for running. Spender lay at the top of a hill,

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and a gap in the rocks showed the white of

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his shirt against the shadows. Wilder looked at the towers

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of the little clean Martian village, like sharply carved chess pieces.

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Speaker 2: Lying in the afternoon.

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Speaker 4: He saw the rocks and the interval between where Spender's

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chest was revealed. Go on, spend her, get out. You've

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only got a few seconds to escape. Go on, get

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out of the caves. Come back later, you go. Now,

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I've got to wend this. I've got to think that

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I'm right. Pull this trigger, go now, get out, Get him.

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Speaker 6: A slick in ahead of those funny fail pack.

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Speaker 2: Put down that gun. I'll do this myself, Spender, why

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didn't you get out? Why? Why? Why?

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Speaker 4: They buried him in that ancient valley town where the

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music of the wind played on through the days and

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the nights. They laid him in an ancient silver sarcophagus

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with waxes and wines which were ten thousand years old,

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his hands folded on his chest. The last they saw

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him was his peaceful face in the cold silver light

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of the racing between moons. The captain found the poem

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in Spender's pocket, and he read it before he shut

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the marble door. So we will go no more a roving,

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so late into the night, though the heart he still

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is loving, and the moon he still is bright. Though

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the night was made for loving, and the day returns

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too soon. Yet we'll go no more a roving by

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the light of the moon. The next afternoon, park Hill

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did some target practice in one of the dead cities,

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shooting out the crystal windows and blowing the tops off

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the fragile towers. Captain Wilder caught parkiln nearly knocked his

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teeth out.

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Speaker 3: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the

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National Broadcasting Company.

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Speaker 2: In cooperation with Street and Smith.

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Speaker 3: Publishers of Astounding science fiction.

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Speaker 2: The Night.

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Speaker 3: By transcription X minus one has brought you the Ray

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Bradbury Story and the Moon Be Still as Bright, adapted

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for radio by Ernest Cannoy.

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Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were John.

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Speaker 3: Larkin, Clark, Gordon, Dick Hamilton, Nelson Olmsted, Lawrence Kerr and Stannerley.

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Speaker 2: Your narrator was Norman Rose. You're announcer Fred Collins.

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Speaker 3: X Minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter and is

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an NBC Radio Network production.