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Speaker 1: I'll stay tune for X minus one on NBC.

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Speaker 2: 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 Gallup Science Fiction Magazine, presents.

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Speaker 3: Minus one.

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Speaker 1: Good Night, the Frank Quatrochy Story Sea Legs.

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Speaker 4: I stood in line at the GRAB one desk with

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the old notched service record and tapes in my hand,

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and waited for the board processing clerk to speak. The

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clerk seemed utterly indifferent to the excitement of the men

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in the line. I wondered how long he'd been out

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here on this god forsaken zone five planet.

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Speaker 5: Next aname Robert Craig, Occupation Flight Officer, Destination Earth Earth.

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Speaker 6: Anything wrong with that? I guess that.

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Speaker 5: How long since you've been on Earth, mister Craig?

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Speaker 6: And I uh, I've never been there.

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Speaker 4: My parents left during the second colonization of Cassiopeia.

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Speaker 6: I was born there.

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Speaker 5: Have you ever been in a gravity system or just

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briefly under drugs. Of course, you'll have to go through

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the gravity conditioning course. Yes, so I was told, proceed

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to the airlock chamber on your right and follow the

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robot's orders.

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Speaker 6: Good luck, you may need it.

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Speaker 4: Next, I went into the chamber and stripped off my

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clothing while the robot droned its orders.

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Speaker 7: Remove all metal objects from your person, placed them in

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the plastic tube at your left. Now stand underneath the

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decontamination tube to press the button with your right foot.

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Speaker 3: This is all.

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Speaker 7: Proceed through the green door to the psychometric section. Please

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respond quickly to orders, and so do not impede the

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progress of others.

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Speaker 4: Next, please, the door to the sie metric section led

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into a pleasant but cold looking room with a single

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metal desk.

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Speaker 6: A man with a balding high forehead sat behind the desk.

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Speaker 8: Mister Craig, have a seat. I'm Captain Wyandot, the psychological officer.

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Speaker 6: Nice to meet you as well.

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Speaker 8: Let's see your records.

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Speaker 9: Hmm.

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Speaker 8: You list your destination as terror you were you're certain

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you wish.

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Speaker 6: To go to Earth. Of course, I'm certain.

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Speaker 8: You're somewhat aggressive, mister Craig.

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Speaker 4: Look, I've been standing in line taking orders from clerks

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and robots for six hours. Every time somebody sees that

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I'm headed for Earth, I get the fish eye.

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Speaker 6: Are they jealous or what?

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Speaker 8: I hardly think so. You've been a spaceman for sixteen years,

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mister Craig. You've been zooming around in the countergraph systems

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and the outer galaxies without any restraints or self discipline.

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Speaker 4: Have you ever spent six weeks strapped into a grass

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seat on a space rocket, Captain. There's a good deal

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of self discipline involved in that.

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Speaker 8: I think you will find things on terror require a

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different kind of self discipline, mister Craig.

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Speaker 6: I'm pretty much aware of what it's like, are you.

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Speaker 8: I suppose you've heard all the popularizations in the tape zines. Well,

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mister Craig, let me give you a word of caution.

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It's going to be vastly different.

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Speaker 6: I'm prepared for that, Captain. Can we get going naturally?

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Speaker 8: You will undergo a twenty day conditioning course. Twenty days,

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mister Craig, you've been in space sixteen years. Your body

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is conditioned to a normal state of free fall, or

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at best, to acceleration. The return to gravity would kill

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you if you weren't prepared for it?

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Speaker 6: All right? What do I do?

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Speaker 8: Report a centrifugal department? Here are your papers? Oh and

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mister Craig, yes, centrifugal is a rather trying ordeal. If

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during the course of treatment, you should change your mind

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about returning to Earth, you're free to do so.

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Speaker 6: Thanks. I won't.

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Speaker 4: I'd heard about centrifugal, but you can never really know

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about these things until you experience them. Four times a day,

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we were whirled around until it seemed as if our

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insides were too big for our bodies. On the twelfth

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day it got to be too much for me. I

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was in the base hospital for five days. My roommate

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was an old space bomb they'd brought in to die

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with a case of ruptured veins. His name was Charlie Brockman.

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Speaker 10: How you feel, son, I'm pretty good, Charlie. You get

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discharged tomorrow. Here you're gonna try it again?

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Speaker 6: I guess so? Why only way I'll ever get to Earth?

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Speaker 3: You really want to go? That's right?

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Speaker 10: You talk to anybody?

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Speaker 9: Been there last ten years or so?

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Speaker 4: No, you don't get to talk to many people from

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Earth in the galaxies?

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Speaker 6: Were you ever there? Me?

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Speaker 11: Now?

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Speaker 10: What would an old space bumb like me be doing

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Speaker 6: Well, I just thought maybe i'd.

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Speaker 10: Done most of my time and Zone five out there.

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You get to think in anybody who stays less than

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eighty light years from Earth the land lobber.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. I used to think the same.

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Speaker 4: Then I took the exam for a job back on

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Earth and I passed it.

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Speaker 10: I used to think I'd like to go back. But

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space was exciting, you know, new and raw. It tugged

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at your guts and it sent the blood rushing through

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your veins.

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Speaker 8: But it was free.

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Speaker 10: No bureaucrat ever lasted six months and Grab five I had.

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Speaker 6: Enough hitting atmospheres all over the universal man.

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Speaker 3: Maybe you're right lean over here? Will you sure?

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Speaker 10: Unbutton my pajama.

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Speaker 6: Top, will you?

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Speaker 10: Okay, there's a chain around my leg. Got a little

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message capsule on it.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, I got it.

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Speaker 10: Do me a favor, huh. Take it with you when

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you go back to Terra. Don't open it till you're

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on the ship. Okay, Charlie and Son, Yes, I lied

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to you. I have been back to Terra. I faked

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some papers and made a landing there six months ago.

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Speaker 6: What are you doing back here?

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Speaker 9: I had to leave in a hurry.

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Speaker 10: Why you'll find out son, Good luck.

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Speaker 6: Charlie died the next day.

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Speaker 4: A few hours later, I was visited by Captain Wyandott,

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a psych officer.

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Speaker 3: How are you feeling, Craig?

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Speaker 6: Okay, you still want to go back to Earth?

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Speaker 1: Yes, you're completely sure.

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Speaker 8: You want to live out your life there to give

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up Space Service for it.

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Speaker 6: Look we've gone through this, captain.

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Speaker 4: Now you tell me that spacemen don't settle down on

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terror yet you won't or you can't tell me why?

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Speaker 6: All right? What's the pitch?

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Speaker 4: Does the Space Service need men so badly that they

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have to make it impossible for us to go back?

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Speaker 6: That?

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Speaker 8: Mister Craig, you will have to discover for yourself. You

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have my authorization to complete your conditioning and return to

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Earth as a private citizen. I wish you luck. You'll

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need all you can.

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Speaker 4: Get Somehow I managed to survive the torments for eighteen days.

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Speaker 6: I was ready to return to Earth.

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Speaker 4: A month later, I descended from a huge intergalactic jet

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at Los Angeles Spaceport. I was dead tired from the trip.

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I checked in at the nearest inexpensive hotel.

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Speaker 6: This is your room. Sir, just put the bags down.

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Will y'all unpack myself? Oh yes, sir, just back from

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out a spacer. That's right. How could you tell sea legs?

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Sea legs the way you walk and tell when somebody's

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been in the low graph systems? Oh well here?

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Speaker 4: Oh thanks, mister Greg. For another five units, I'll tell

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you where it is?

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Speaker 9: Where?

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Speaker 6: What is you know? The mic mike? Okay, make it

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three units. I won't hold you up. You mean a microphone? Yeah,

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that's right. They wanted to put screens in, but the

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boys convinced them. There rant any freedom ights of us

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stay here? Freedom might not so loud? You want to

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get controlled? No? No, here's the money? Where is it? It's

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in the bet illuminator. You can short it with the

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razor blade. Thanks. You want any sensation tapes? What are

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they know? Metal image? Oh boy, you've been away from

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terror a long time.

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Speaker 4: Wait a minute before you go, son, where's the minerals building?

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Speaker 6: I have to report there for a job interview.

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Speaker 4: It's in the government cluster, fifth level of X and second. Thanks,

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I'll want breakfast about eight o'clock. I don't need yours units?

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My what your ration units? I don't have any ration units.

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Speaker 6: You have your right dent card. Look, I just got

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here an hour ago.

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Speaker 4: You better go see the Civil Control Board tomorrow if

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you want to eat, That is all right?

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Speaker 6: Where do I find the Control Board?

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Speaker 4: Government cluster?

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Speaker 6: But don't worry. If you don't find them, they'll find you.

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Speaker 4: I went to sleep that night with the uneasy feeling

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that somebody was watching me. It's been a weird day.

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I hadn't exactly liked it. Well, I told myself. It

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figured that there'd be more formalities and rigmarole on Earth

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than there were out.

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Speaker 6: In the systems. Especially at first.

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Speaker 4: Still, I couldn't get the idea of the concealed microphone

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out of my mind.

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Speaker 9: You ever relaxed, mister Craig? You are mister Craig?

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Speaker 4: Oh yes, uh, Robert Craig, you aren't nervous her? No, no, no,

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this is my first time before the control board, and.

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Speaker 6: Well it's my first.

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Speaker 9: Time flight officer. Somewhat unusual for a vigorous young man

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like yourself. Abandoning space service, isn't it?

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Speaker 6: I don't know?

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Speaker 9: Is it leaving something behind? Mister Craig. No, you don't

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like this sort of affair, do you?

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Speaker 4: Mister Creig, Well, I'm afraid I don't quite see its necessity.

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I serve the Intergalactic Service. Well, my records prove it.

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Speaker 9: It's enough impertinence. Mister Craig, answer the questions. You are

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a Terran. Yes, where are your loyalties?

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Speaker 6: I don't understand your first.

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Speaker 9: Loyalties are too intergalactic? Is that right?

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Speaker 6: Is there a distinction?

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Speaker 9: Do you wish to be held in contempt to this board?

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Of course not, and you will confine your responses to

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simple yes answers. Now, mister Craig, we shall begin again.

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Please try to show restraint of emotion. You are here

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to petition for an identity card to provisional code TOWO type.

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You maintain that you've never been on Terra before. Indeed,

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you state that you've never had a political affiliation. Yes,

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what are your reactions to the latest acts of the

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Liberal Party?

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Speaker 6: I have none.

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Speaker 9: You do not condemn the Liberal Party? Well, then you

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must favor it.

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Speaker 6: I don't know anything about it.

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Speaker 9: Now, then, mister Craig, the Import Service report shows that

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you passed your test aboard your ship. You were unable

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to accomplish this through night study. Yes, at you maintain

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in your application that you had considered the space service

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a career.

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Speaker 6: I changed my mind.

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Speaker 9: Oh it changed your mind? I see. I see too

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that you've petitioned the board for a private means of conveyance.

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Why do you wish to own your own transportation vehicle.

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Speaker 6: To make it easier to get around? I report to

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my job. And what job?

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Speaker 4: I passed the exam for the import service. I report today.

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Speaker 9: Where are you living, mister Craig at the Star Hotel?

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Speaker 3: Very well.

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Speaker 9: You'll wait outside in the waiting room until you're called again.

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Speaker 4: I waited about two hours in the porcelainized waiting room

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of the Civil Control Board, and I was called over

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to the clerk's desk at a small window.

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Speaker 6: He stamped some cards for me.

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Speaker 3: Craig.

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Speaker 5: Here, here's your stuff, Class one provisional ident card. Sign

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it and fingerprinted. Don't lose it. If you do, you'll

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be picked up by the control agents. I petition for

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a Class two card.

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Speaker 11: You'll get a Class one.

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Speaker 5: This entitles you to maintain an apartment in the lower

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level of the Beverly Project. Here's your clothing Russian. You'll

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have to turn in that leather flight jacket.

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Speaker 6: Wait a minute, I had this mate on chewan. Listen,

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I can remove the insignia.

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Speaker 5: That is not the point. Your clothing ration is defined

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by law. There are no exceptions. This is your food ration.

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Speaker 6: Of what's all this medical stuff on the card?

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Speaker 5: You are I ration fairly in accordance with your particular metabolism.

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Speaker 6: Oh you're a kidding. I do not kid mister Craig.

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What about a car? I asked to be allowed to

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buy a car. Let's see, your.

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Speaker 5: Petition to be permitted to purchase a private means of

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transportation is here by denied.

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Speaker 4: I walked out of the control board feeling like a

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man who has just come out of free fall into

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a hypergravity system. Instead of reporting to the Import service

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for my initial job interview, I walked around the city.

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I don't know how long I walked, maybe an hour,

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maybe two. After a while, I came to the outskirts

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of old Los Angeles. There was a big fence around

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it and the usual signs radioactivity beware, with just a

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pile of rubble and twisted girders. I looked at it

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for a while and then turned around and headed for

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the Intergalactic Freight Office.

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Speaker 11: So your figure you made a mistake.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right. You don't hear much about terror out there.

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Speaker 11: And you want me to sign your back into Intergoactic.

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Yes you got any character references?

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Speaker 6: No, no, not here on Earth.

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Speaker 4: But I can post a good sized bond if they'll

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release my ISS unit what you're rating. I can handle

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anything up to fifteen g's acceleration on my old license.

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Speaker 11: You've got a tyran contract with Import Service.

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Speaker 6: You said I haven't started work yet.

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Speaker 11: Look, kid, mister Craig, is it how long you been

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on Earth?

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Speaker 6: Two days?

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Speaker 11: So you're a spaceman flight officer, ex flight officer. You

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know how to navigate through four star zones and the

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asteroid belt thrown in. You got a license for fifteen g's,

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could get five more with a check flight. You got

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enough brains to pass the Import Senior Rooters exam, but

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you ain't got enough sense to come in out of

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the rain. We get guys like you every day. You're hot,

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you're big, you're earing a go, but you ain't gone nowhere.

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Speaker 6: I'm listening.

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Speaker 11: I don't know how you got here, Craig. Maybe you

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did quit honorable, and maybe you went and burned up

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a collar someplace.

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Speaker 6: That would be in my records.

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Speaker 11: The point is, it don't make any difference. Nobody leaves

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Terror without a permit. Nobody gets a permit to go

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back to space once he hits this old appen.

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Speaker 6: Why not? Are you afraid somebody will tell what it's like?

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 11: Son, you got things to learn. One is you don't

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go shooting off your mouth. Another is Terror's changed a

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lot since the radioactive was. We're going places, doing things,

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big places, big things. You've got to fit into that, kid,

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move with it, stick around. You still got your sea legs.

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You're gonna like it here. You can make a quick

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dollar and spend it quick too, but you'd better smart

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enough or you're finished scrubbing radioactive dust off gurdis.

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Speaker 6: That's the story, Huh, the whole story.

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Speaker 11: That's it. Everything runs by a system, and Son, you

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can't buck the city.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I don't suppose there's any place around here a guy

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could get a quick drink.

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Speaker 11: Oh yeah. Out at the end of Y Street. They

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got a little plature can buy in Acadian tis pluto

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as they call it. Thanks, Yeah, get it out of

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your system and then settle down. That's my advice.

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Speaker 6: Thanks so long.

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Speaker 11: Get me in the control agent. He just left here.

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He's on his way to the Pluto cafe.

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Speaker 6: Waiter, Wait, bring me another drink for the young lady. Wow, now,

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then where were we? I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: Guys, still don't know why you're buying me free drinks?

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Speaker 6: I told you I want somebody to talk to.

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Speaker 4: You are pure?

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Speaker 8: Maybe you don't like the brand of sensation tapes their

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pedaling these days.

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Speaker 3: No, you don't have.

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Speaker 4: A bad face really underneath the makeup. I mean it's

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a little crooked, but it ain't bad. Really.

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Speaker 3: Thanks?

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Speaker 6: Does me pretty good? What's your name?

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Speaker 11: Gloria?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 6: Sure, sure, sure, I remember lord. Maybe you had enough

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to drink, Nona, not that yet, you know. I look around.

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Speaker 4: I see all these people with their faces all froze

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up like plastic, and I feel like I got.

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Speaker 6: To know somebody. I go out of my mind. So

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what happens?

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Speaker 4: Everybody is a free I mean, what happened?

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Speaker 10: Whatever happened to freedom?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 6: What's the matter? Did I say something? Everybody so quiet

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about all of a sudden?

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Speaker 12: Okay, come with me, who are you control board agent?

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Speaker 11: Hey?

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Speaker 13: I wasn't with him, honestly, he just picked me up

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and brought me a drink and started chopping off his mouth.

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Speaker 6: I wasn't with him.

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Speaker 3: Let's go four, you'll find that out. Come on your feet.

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Speaker 6: Hey, okay, keep your hands off. I'll go with you.

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Speaker 12: Everybody else, just mind your own business, you girlie.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, let's see you, right, Dent curn here. You live

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with this address?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, along with my my sister.

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Speaker 12: Maybe some nights you could go to a movie or something.

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We could spend some time getting acquainted.

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Speaker 11: Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, sometimes got a recorder.

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Speaker 1: Hey, I need my Dent card back.

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Speaker 6: I can't get rations without it.

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Speaker 3: I'll keep it, bring it back myself.

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Speaker 6: Why is to give a girl or card?

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Speaker 3: No, and maybe your mind your own business. Let's go.

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You walk just a little in front of me.

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Speaker 4: He was a big man, maybe two hundred and fifty pounds,

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and he shuffled when he walked. He hit me right

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across the right shoulder with a sort of rubber trunche

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and nod began to ache.

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Speaker 6: Walking along a sort of back street.

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Speaker 4: Everywhere in the universe there were such streets, streets where

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you could find freedom and anonymity, a compromise between lawlessness

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and law. They are permitted by the authorities because it

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is necessary to have a place for those who are

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not permitted elsewhere.

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Speaker 12: Okay, step into the stowaway. Hurry up here four were

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being followed followed.

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Speaker 3: Don't ask questions, right to get hit over the headless.

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You do what you're told in here.

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Speaker 6: Hurry Who are they shooting at you? Were mean both

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of us.

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Speaker 3: Down these steps.

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Speaker 8: Stop.

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Speaker 6: Follow a fire through the store. Now talk behind that

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pelotomica sound.

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Speaker 11: You see them, I tray, Come on, they probably slipped out.

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Speaker 3: Walk through the tunnel behind you. One false movement you finished.

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Speaker 9: Go on.

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Speaker 6: From the direction of the tunnel.

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Speaker 4: I guessed it was part of an old sewage system

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that led toward the ruined city. I don't know how

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long we walked, maybe an hour. Finally we came to

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a small wooden door.

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Speaker 3: Stop here, Okay, let's have it. I have one the tube.

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Speaker 6: I don't know what you mean.

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Speaker 3: Our detectives picked it up any of the minute you

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got off the plane.

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Speaker 12: You're carrying a radioactive message too, with the periodic emission signal.

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Speaker 3: I need to have it before we can go any further.

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Speaker 6: You mean the tube that old Charlie gave me.

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Speaker 3: Old Charlie, Charlie.

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Speaker 4: Brockman, the old spaceman who was in the hospital with me.

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I did I think it's in my pocket?

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Speaker 6: I never even bothered to open it.

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Speaker 3: Do it now?

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Speaker 6: Let me see? Oh yeah, here it is. Open it essenty.

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Speaker 3: That's right. The message is in the tube itself.

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Speaker 12: We identify our people by the radioactive pattern our people.

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You'll see come in, make it fast.

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Speaker 3: It's the one. This is the one. Has he been drugged.

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Speaker 12: He's had POW and a massive dose at the Pluto gird.

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Mister Craig, my name's Cocktail. This is mister Brannigan. You're

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probably quite bewildered about all this. Let me clarify the situation.

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You're now in the headquarters of the Freedomides underneath the

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radioactive part of old Los Angeles. Mister Brannigan is not

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a controlled agent. It's one of our men. We've been

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watching you ever since we detected the message tube as

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your ship was approaching Earth.

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Speaker 6: Now wait a minute.

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Speaker 4: You you guys are Freedom Ightes.

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Speaker 6: That's right, you're pretty illegal, aren't you.

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Speaker 12: Let's say our lives aren't worth a snap of your

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fingers if we're caught.

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Speaker 6: Alright, who are you? Where you're from?

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Speaker 12: Most of us are from the same place. You're from

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out of space. Many of us had the same history

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you have. We shipped into Earth and became disillusioned and

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went through the Intergalactic Freight Office to apply for a job.

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Man at the office, the man who made the speech

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about coming in out of the rain, is one of

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our agents.

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Speaker 6: Aren't you taking a chance telling me all this?

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Speaker 12: Or at the Pluto you were given a massive dose

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of pon. You won't remember anything that happened to you

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after the drug hits you in an hour or so.

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It works like a shock. Everything will be repressed into

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the unconscious.

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Speaker 6: Oh, I see very neat.

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Speaker 12: It will exist in your unconscious, however, somewhere. Because you're

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the kind of man you are, because living in space

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has taught you the blessing of feeling free, you'll be

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able to draw up on your unconscious knowledge when you

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need to.

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Speaker 6: And when will that be, mister Cocktail.

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Speaker 1: That depends on whether you decide to join us or.

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Speaker 6: Not join you in what. I haven't the faintest idea

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of what you're trying to do. For all I know

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you're a bunch of traitors. You know I've heard this

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comes to the revolution stuff before.

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Speaker 12: My friend, you're wofully, ignorant of our aims, has it

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to be expected. We anticipate no revolution, We print no leaflets,

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publish no newspaper, and we have no world planned for conquest.

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The kind of totalitarian mind which subscribes to tight economic systems,

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like the ancient Marxism of the communists, is of horrid

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to us. We are interested in only one thing, the

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preservation of the idea of freedom. Our fear is that

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men will forget what it's like to feel free, or

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how do you expect to accomplish this? Our concepts are

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being kept alive in only one place in the universe today,

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out of space, exactly on the frontiers of the universe,

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where freedom is a condition of life and growth.

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Speaker 6: Suppose I join you. How can I help?

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Speaker 1: You're an experienced pilot.

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Speaker 12: We have enough connections to do some plastic surgery on

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your face and get you a position piloting a spaceship again.

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You'll remember nothing of your mission, but you will remember

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that you have been back to Earth what it was like.

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You'll be able, carefully, of course, to tell people to

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help keep the idea of freedom alive.

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Speaker 1: Think it over, carefu. You have twenty minutes before the

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drug takes fake.

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Speaker 6: I don't need twenty minutes.

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Speaker 1: I'll do it good.

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Speaker 12: In exactly forty eight hours, you wake up in your

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hotel bed with a new face the identity card of

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a man named Harold Janis. You'll not remember how you

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got them or why, but you'll know what to do

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with his identity. He is or was master navigator on

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the Earth Mars Run. Good luck, mister Craig.

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Speaker 4: I woke up in the hotel bed feeling like a

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man who has hung one on, but good. I looked

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into the mirror and I saw the face of another man.

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I looked in my wallet and discovered that I was

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Harold Janis, navigator for Intergalactic holder of a license for

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fifteen gees. I wondered where it came from, how I

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got it, but I asked no questions. This license, this

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ident card, meant freedom. I walked out of the hotel

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feeling steady. For the first time, I'd gotten my sea

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legs at last.

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Speaker 13: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the

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National Broadcasting Company in co operation with Galaxy Science Fiction magazine,

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which this month features The Venus Trap by Evelyn E.

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Speaker 1: Smith.

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Speaker 13: One thing man never planned to take along into space

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with him was the eternal triangle, especially a true blue

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triangle like this one Galaxy Magazine on your new stand

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to day to night by transcription.

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Speaker 1: X minus one has.

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Speaker 13: Brought You Sea Legs, a story from the pages of Galaxy,

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written by Frank Potrochy and adapted for radio by George Leffards.

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Featured in the cast were William Redfield, James Stevens, Stanerley,

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Charles Penman, James Ducas, Richard Hamilton, Jack Orrison, Jack Grimes,

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Craig mc donald, Ralph Bell, Kermit Murdoch, and Fredrika Chandler.

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Speaker 1: You're announcer Fred Collins.

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Speaker 13: X minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter, and it's

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an NBC Radio Network production.

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Speaker 12: Here Politics and Primaries Dateline, Ohio and Indiana Tonight on

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NBC Radio