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Speaker 2: But first, some of the funniest situations you've ever witnessed

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in tomorrow. Then another laugh session is in store later

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melodic note on your Wednesday evening schedule. It's music and

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fun on airtime with Josel McKenzie. And now stay tuned

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for X minus one on NBC.

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Speaker 1: Come down for Blast Off X minus five four three

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two X minus one Fire from the far horizons of

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the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time

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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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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 Galaxies Science Fiction Magazine presents.

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Speaker 2: HE minus one Tonight Hallucination Orbit by J. T. Macintosh.

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Speaker 3: 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

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the rods on the number three pile check leakage. Yes, sir,

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try and have the locks cleared of all unessential personnel

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when that pickup rocket comes back. There's no point in

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

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

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my quarters if I'm wanted. Well now then, mister dan Berry,

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make yourself comfortable.

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Speaker 4: I thank you.

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Speaker 5: Can you care for a drink Scotch and that bob

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Bourbon in the other.

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Speaker 4: No, thank you. I cann could quite used a squirting

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liquor from a rubber bowel as if I were oily.

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Speaker 3: I'm daring, and you'd have a devil of a time

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pouring from a bottle in free fall. Well, how are

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you enjoying your trip?

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Speaker 4: Very interesting? Very nice you to give me a lift.

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You know it would have been eight months before another

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ship came along.

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Speaker 3: A lot more than that with the main Pluto beam

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station out, probably eight years.

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Speaker 4: Really that long? I thought the whole round to Pluto

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Speaker 5: Yes, it is when the beam is running. To see

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mister Danberry.

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Speaker 3: We left Earth twenty seven days after the beam broadcast

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from Pluto station broke. We've been spaceborne close to six years.

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Speaker 4: I suppose that's why you're in orbit around this planet

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picking up supplies or something.

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Speaker 3: Eh oh oh, this is a standard pick up for

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the space Beam service. We sent a rocket down to

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take off a man who's been the only inhabitant of

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this planet for a little over two years.

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Speaker 4: Well, and I expect he'll be glad to see you.

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Speaker 6: Well, there's no telling.

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Speaker 3: I know I would after two years of duty. Mister Danberry,

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you might not know anything.

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Speaker 4: Oh, psychiatric troubles, solatosis, it's from the Latin solas alone.

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Is that much of a problem only in space?

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Speaker 6: Here?

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Speaker 4: Look a look through that port seems empty.

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Speaker 6: It is.

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Speaker 3: It's empty of horizon, sky, sunlight, ground, It's empty of time,

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it's empty of people. You can't live in it too

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long without something happening.

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Speaker 4: I see. But surely people have been alone before spaceflying.

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Speaker 3: Yes, but they have been on the same world with

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other people, and that seems to make a difference. You

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trying to escape civilization. Put him on a deserted world.

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He turned psychotic. Is it a cure culture put him

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back with people at least about forty people. That seems

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to be the critical number. See, I have forty eight

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in this ship's complement. I could run her with about

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a but if I tried to, I'd have psychos on

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Speaker 5: Six months have to blast off.

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Speaker 4: But then every one of these men on the beam stations.

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't pay to leave more than forty men on

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

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Speaker 5: So they leave one man.

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Speaker 3: How he gets it all right, But you can snap

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him out of it just by taking him back to Earth.

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Speaker 4: And what are they like? How does it defect them?

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Speaker 3: Well, so far, I've picked up about twenty eight space

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station officers. I've seen twenty eight different sets of symptoms.

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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,

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pick up rocket sick all right, mister choker, prepare to

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receive the pickuplert the psychiatric staff, and I'll be right there.

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Speaker 5: Would you care to see them? Bring em inster Dan Barry,

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Speaker 4: I don't think so, Thank you.

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Speaker 3: Laurright, mister Chaka, as soon as the rocket is secured,

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make a trajectory for the next station.

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Speaker 7: Answer, that's Pluto station three.

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Speaker 5: Carry on, huh, Pluto station three. That will be a

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Speaker 3: He has been on that lump of rock all by himself,

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or close to six and a half years.

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Speaker 6: Pluto Station three Daily Report, colinord Space Officer. Everything is

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in fine shape. 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.

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He's been quite furtive lately. Why I'm required to record

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this report every day escapes me because it's quite obvious

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to any empty headed brass hat at the Central office

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that not a word of this has been worth the

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tape it's been recorded on for the last five and

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a half years. But if it amuses you, gentlemen to

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

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

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the pickups through the whole station and leave the tape running.

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That'll give you a daily report all day. So keep

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on listening. Right now. I have the distinct impression that

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Earth is winking at me rather suggestive lewd wink.

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Speaker 8: It helps see the planets, doesn't it.

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Speaker 9: Hmm?

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Speaker 6: Oh, I thought you were reading.

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Speaker 7: I was.

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Speaker 8: You know, if you hadn't been able to see the

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

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Speaker 6: Who knows, I'm not one now you don't anyway?

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Speaker 8: Well, I think that so long as you talk sanely

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about madness, you can't be so far gone. M It's

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out there somewhere, isn't it?

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Speaker 6: The rescue ship somewhere?

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Speaker 8: How long now come it? Where could they be now?

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but they could be very close.

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Speaker 7: If the beam.

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Speaker 8: Hadn't failed, they would have been here long ago, wouldn't they.

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Speaker 6: Oh? Sure, eleven months with the beam over six years

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without it. Well, anyway, that triple time six years pay

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Speaker 8: You'll be set up the life when you get back

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to earth, won't you?

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Speaker 6: And at twenty nine I'll be rotten with money.

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Speaker 8: Oh well, it's been nice knowing you.

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Speaker 6: That's because of the others before you. I've learned a lot.

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Speaker 8: I'll never talk of the others, and above all, I'll

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never talk of any others to come.

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Speaker 6: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 8: Would you like to play chess? It's a long time

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since we did.

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Speaker 6: I don't think so, not anymore. I'm a little tired

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of chess.

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Speaker 8: Oh, I know, I know.

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Speaker 7: I won't bother you.

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Speaker 8: I'll go to my room.

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Speaker 7: Color.

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Speaker 6: Well, don't get upset.

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Speaker 8: I'm not. I understand you're just tired of chess.

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Speaker 6: You still listening, Gentlemen, that last few minutes might have

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been a little confusing. You'd like to know who I

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was talking to, wouldn't you. I'm afraid you can't hear

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her on the tape. That's una. Now I'll tell you

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what she looks like. You might find it interesting. She's beautiful,

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but rather cool. She always wears a white shirt and

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

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in a calm sort of way. She plays a good

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game of chess, although I beat her two out of three. Times.

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Of course you know why you can't hear her on

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the tape, But I still know too. That's point in

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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

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a long, cool, slightly unappealing bore. My problem is how

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to get rid of her. I can't just tell her

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to vanish. She's a little too real for that. I

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

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find another to take her away. Well I might as

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well get to it. Oh no, No, I'm not going

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to bother about the ship. It's too much mental effort.

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I'd have to think up everything I saw, and frankly, gentlemen,

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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

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remember Margie. There was a girl A load of bricks

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had to fall on her head. Took me four weeks

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to get rid of her. No, let Una figure her

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

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I thought she might. Her ship's gone too. Well. All

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in all, I don't think Una was really very satisfactory.

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One of these days, I'll start believing in them, and

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I'll be really gone. Well, if I activate the main

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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

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when the ship really comes, I'll think it's make believe. Yes,

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there it is a small ship curving in for landing.

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I suppose I could check on the detectors. I know

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they register anybody within a hundred thousand miles. But I

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don't bother checking them anymore, because someday the moment will

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come when I check the detectors and I'll see just

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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.

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I'm rather interested to find out what the explanation will

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be for the girl. Naturally it will be a girl.

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It's all right. You can take your helmet off. The

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ears all right in here?

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Speaker 7: You must be Baker.

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Speaker 6: Oh, good heavens, no Baker was before me. Here. You

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can't be one of his dreams. Seven years late. I'm ORed,

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colin ord.

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Speaker 7: Where we go any further?

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Speaker 8: Just how does solutosis affect you?

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Speaker 6: Well, that's new. None of them ever asked that before.

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It makes me see things that aren't there.

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Speaker 7: And you know there's nothing there.

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Speaker 6: Mm. Sometimes do you know I'm here? I'm making a

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point of not wondering about it.

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Speaker 7: Well, one thing you can be sure of this. Do

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you see this? This is a gun.

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Speaker 10: I just want you to know I'm not Heaven's little

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gift to lonely space station offices.

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Speaker 7: Isn't that clear?

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Speaker 6: Oh? Yes, yes? What's your name?

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Speaker 7: Elsa cutterline? You want to know why I'm here?

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Speaker 6: 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.

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Why don't you uh take off your space suit.

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Speaker 7: I'll tell you why, just the same I killed a man?

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Why and how? It doesn't matter. I had access to

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an experimental ship I thought.

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Speaker 6: If I disappeared for about So please don't labor over it.

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Speaker 7: Why not?

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Speaker 6: Well, when we get around to it, I would be

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interested in the story you can concoct. For being dressed

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like the cover of a magazine story in rather minimal clothing.

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

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You must be a throwback.

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Speaker 7: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 6: You know you're gonna have a tough time with that

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gun when you get tired of holding it. It's a

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

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I take it from you? After all, you have to sleep.

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There's no door in the station you can lock that

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I can't get in.

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Speaker 7: I know.

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Speaker 10: I just wanted to make sure you weren't violent. I

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think I can get on with you.

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Speaker 6: Ort mm, yes, yes, I see. The question is, my dear,

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whether you're real or not? Well, oh, yes, but that

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doesn't prove anything. As a matter of fact, the realer

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

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there still is the remote possibility that you might actually

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have killed someone decided to hide out on a space station.

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Shall I tell you something else, Elsa, what I'm suddenly

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tired of the whole business. Breathe there a man with

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soul so dead. I'm sure you know the rest of it.

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I would suddenly like to have enough people around me

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so that I could be sane. I would like to

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find women as part of life, instead of having them

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pop up here from the depths of my rather pornographic subconscious. Ah,

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but you've shaken me, Elsa. Twenty four hours ago, I

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was congratulating myself that solatosis hadn't really gotten me. But

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now I don't know.

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Speaker 10: Just don't try anything funny, or you'll find out whether

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I'm real.

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Speaker 6: Hard way anyway is the hard way. First, I'll go

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out and have a look at your ship. Fourteen pounds

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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

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there was no lighter and I see it, I could

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also see it burn when there isn't any air. As

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a matter of fact, how do I know that? I

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can read a meter for air pressure? And now that

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I look again quickly, I find I haven't got a

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lighter in my hand, and as a matter of fact,

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the pressure meter reads zero. There's no air on this ship.

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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

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be able to walk through the walls of this ship.

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Speaker 7: Well, what did you find out there?

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Speaker 6: You'd better leave. It was a mistake. You're coming here.

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I'm sorry.

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Speaker 7: No, don't come any closer to me.

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Speaker 6: Put down the gun back on morning.

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Speaker 7: You'll keep back.

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Speaker 6: You see, it's no use. Oh you're a good shot.

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You got me right between the eyes. But I couldn't

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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,

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you die. Do you know that?

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Speaker 7: Yes, I know that.

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Speaker 6: I'll give you about twenty minutes to get that over

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stuffed figure back into that spacesuit and get off my planet. Frankly,

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I'm getting tired of hallucinations. Tired. No, no, no, I'll

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keep that after a while, I'll put it in a drawer.

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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,

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there will be no more Else's, or Susi's or Margie's.

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I am not going to give in to salatosis. Maybe

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maybe I'll bring Una back. At least she could play chess.

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Pluto Station three Daily Report, Colin ord Space Officer, Gentlemen,

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I have successfully fought off salatosis for two days, and

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I have been alone. However, I'm afraid I'll lose. As

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I watch my main scope. Now I see a ship

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coming in again. I wonder what this one will be like.

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It's a launch from a large your spaceship, maybe a lifeboat.

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Dorothy came in a lifeboat. I wonder what this one

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will be like. I've got to find out when she

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comes whether she's real. That's the key. As long as

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I know if she's real. When I don't care anymore,

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that's when it's really got me. The ship's down. Now

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

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find out whether she's real. Colin aud that's right.

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Speaker 9: I'm doctor Lynn, a fourth star lines Marilyn Lynne.

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Speaker 6: Very pretty. You're going to tell me your story now?

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Or do I have to wait?

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Speaker 9: I'm not going to tell you anything till I've found

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out a little more about you.

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Speaker 6: Well, you're an improvement on the last one. At least.

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You're young and beautiful, and you're not fantastic, and you

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look intelligent. What do you mean, don't worry about me.

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I see things that aren't there, particularly people.

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Speaker 9: Oh so you don't believe I'm here?

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Speaker 6: Would you if you were me?

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Speaker 9: Do you know I'm not here?

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Speaker 6: No? That comes with time, at least it always has

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so far.

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Speaker 9: You mean, you've always proved to yourself that your visitors

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were mere fantasy with a struggle interesting controlled solitosis. I

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never heard of it before. It's a pleasure to meet you,

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mister Hud.

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Speaker 6: No, No, that doesn't make you real. They all say that.

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Speaker 9: Why should I want to make you accept me as real?

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Speaker 6: I don't know, but they all do.

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Speaker 9: When will you know?

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Speaker 6: Oh? I can't say. Maybe in five minutes, maybe not

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for hours.

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Speaker 9: How do you do it? You don't shoot me to

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see if if I die or anything like that, do you?

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Speaker 6: No, nothing like that. If I shoot you, you do

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die like the witches in history. They'd die if they

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were and they'd die if they weren't.

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Speaker 9: Your mind has remained agile.

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Speaker 6: Enough, naturally, I never heard of solatosis inhibiting intelligence. Would

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you like some coffee?

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Speaker 9: Is that part of the test whether more coffee is

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actually drunk than you drink yourself?

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Speaker 6: No? No, that doesn't help. It would be very easy

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for me to make half what I thought I made,

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to fill a cup with nothing and pass it back.

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H You look afraid?

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Speaker 9: Why should I be?

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Speaker 6: What am I doing? Am I doing something I don't

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know I'm doing?

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Speaker 8: No?

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Speaker 9: Would you like me to wash the cups for you

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when we're done?

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Speaker 6: It won't prove anything. Next time they were used, I

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could just imagine they were washed, couldn't I Where are

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you going to find out? If you're real?

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Speaker 9: My ship?

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Speaker 6: Go ahead?

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Speaker 9: Good luck?

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Speaker 6: What's she afraid about?

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Speaker 9: It?

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Speaker 6: Something I said? None of the others were really afraid

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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.

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But that's no good. I can't tell if I'm reading

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them at all. Oh, well, the walls solid enough. My

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hand hurts. That doesn't prove anything. Supposing I open my

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face plate, if there's no ship and no air, all right,

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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.

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Maybe I only think it's open. I can't tell. I

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can't tell that she isn't real. That means it's finally

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gotten me, It gets everyone. I don't really know if

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

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

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in my mind. I think therefore I am yes, I

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remember that from school. Oh, I'm tired. I got to

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get back to the station, very tired. Close my face

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played if I ever opened it. You get back to

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the station. Got a headache, terrible headache. I'm very tired.

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Speaker 9: Are you all right now here? Drink this?

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Speaker 6: What happened?

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Speaker 9: You came in the station lock and passed out?

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Speaker 6: How how long have I been out?

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Speaker 9: About twenty four hours? You're a very sick man, mister rowd.

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Speaker 6: Huh. Reality very important thing, isn't it. It's the most

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important thing there is to learn.

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Speaker 4: Merely to you.

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Speaker 9: Solatosis naturally affects what matters most to the individual. But

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we needn't talk about that.

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Speaker 6: But I know now you're not real. You can't be,

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even though I feel you are. How did you decide

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that I couldn't prove you weren't not on your ship.

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

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But if you are real, then how did you avoid solatosis?

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Speaker 9: The only way there is. There are forty eight men

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and women in the relief ship that's in orbit around

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your planet right now. I came down in the pick

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up rocket. We have well above the critical number of people.

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I keep rational by knowing they're up there in the orbit,

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And as soon as I'm ready, I'll take you back

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up there.

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Speaker 6: I suppose I can wait. I don't really care care

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if you're real or not anymore.

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Speaker 9: I know it'll take a long while before you care.

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Speaker 6: You sound sad. What's the matter.

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Speaker 9: It's the way you look at me.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean?

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Speaker 9: What do you see when you look at me?

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Speaker 5: What?

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Speaker 6: You're strong? Sort of quietly beautiful? But my age, you're

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wearing a tunic and slacks, and you don't have a

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wedding ring. I noticed that.

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Speaker 9: That's what I thought you saw. I'm real, but not

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your picture of me. I'm a doctor, mister Rord. All

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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

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that was forty years ago.

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Speaker 6: I'm sixty six. You can't be Oh.

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Speaker 9: Yes, it was very nice to be a girl again.

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I could see myself in your eyes, and I almost

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felt young again.

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Speaker 6: As I grow old.

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Speaker 9: In the next few weeks, mister Rhud, you will be recovering.

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Speaker 6: That will show