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and space. These are stories of the future adventures in

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

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with Street and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.

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Speaker 1: The Night Story Ray Bradbury's Tale the Vault.

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Speaker 3: This is the office of doctor David MacLean, resident psychiatrist

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of the New Chicago Institute of Human Engineering.

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Speaker 5: All right, miss Carver, will you take this please to

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Charles S. Howorth, Senior psychiatrist, New Chicago Institute of Human Engineering.

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The following constitutes my report on the case of George

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and Lydia Abbott, which we discussed by telephone. Subject George

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relates onset of symptoms to the purchase of a sixty

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thousand dollars the sound proofed Happy Life home under narcosynthesis.

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During initial interviews, Subject described the experience of the following manner.

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Miss Carver, would you play back the sonic record of

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the initial.

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Speaker 1: Interview we'd always wanted one, and then we could afford it.

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So go on, mister Abbott, tell me about the home.

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The home, Well, it was supposed to do everything the

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agent told us, and it did. I guess it clothed us,

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fed us and rocked us to sleep, played and sang

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and it was good to us, very good. Sure, tell

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me about the nursery. The nursery. The nursery.

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Speaker 5: Ah, it was completely automatic, completely automatic.

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Speaker 1: There were crystalline walls that wavered from two to three dimensions.

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There were pseudo textured floors that shifted from brick to

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dirt to waving grass. The nursery was the best, But

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then we wanted the best for the children. Doctor, I

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must be crazy. We have no children. What about Peter

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and Wendy? They are your children? Oh no, no, we

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have no children, doctor, we have no children. All right,

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Miss Carver to continue.

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Speaker 5: After three sessions, the subject was able to recall and

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accept the idea that he had two children. He described

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the first day.

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Speaker 1: All right, Peter and Wendy, this is your nursery.

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Speaker 6: What's so special about a nursery, Dad.

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Speaker 7: Plenty, Just go in and see, do we have to

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You'll be surprised, gee, go ahead.

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Speaker 6: I'm scared. I'm not. Hey, it's nice in here, it is.

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Come on in, Wendy, boy, look at the pictures on

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the walls. They're real.

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Speaker 1: They're almost real. You can change them anyway you like,

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just by thinking.

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Speaker 8: Go on, Indy.

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Speaker 6: Well all right, mommy, Hey, Wendy, Look what I can

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do with the pictures. That's the right rabbit from oz

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in Wonderland. Sure, I just thought about it, and there

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it was. Let me try, Peter, let me try. We'll

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go ahead.

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Speaker 1: Just think.

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Speaker 6: How about wizard and us. I want to see wizard

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and us.

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Speaker 1: Oh, there, there we are.

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Speaker 8: They like it.

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Speaker 1: Why shouldn't they. All I have to do is think,

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and they've got whatever they want in three dimensions, color, sound,

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and smell.

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Speaker 4: Oh it's nice that we can give them all these advantages.

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Speaker 1: Sure, what else are we working for? Huh? Well, what

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do you want to do this?

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Speaker 8: Even the Petersons asked us over for bridge.

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Speaker 1: Oh, we don't have to worry about the kids. They'll

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be all right in the nursery. Come on, Lydia, we

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deserve a night out.

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Speaker 3: And in the nursery, the walls were a kaleidoscope of

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time and space and imagination. The green forest of Sherwood

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and the quiet forms of Robin and his merry men

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gave way to the role of the high seas.

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Speaker 1: And the smell of salt in the air.

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Speaker 3: As Sir Henry Morgan sailed into the harbor at Jamaica,

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and behind the crystalline courtz walls, the vacuum tubes and

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grids and banks of metal image tapes spun quietly and efficiently,

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erasing the line between illusion and reality. Of course, the

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electric bill from Consolidated Utilities was tremendous, but it was worthless.

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The Happy Life Home breathed contentedly as life he did,

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with soft automaticity, as guaranteed in the brochure and bill

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of sale.

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Speaker 8: George M.

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Speaker 4: George, I wish you'd look at the Nursery's what's wrong

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with it? I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I was in the nursery last week. It's perfectly all right.

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It's different now, what do you mean different?

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Speaker 8: I want you to come and see.

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Speaker 1: Are the kids there?

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Speaker 4: No, Madge Allen took them to a show along with

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her kids. That's why I want you to look at

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it now before they get back.

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Speaker 1: All right, what you expect me to do? I don't know.

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I'm no mechanic.

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Speaker 8: This isn't a question of a leaky faucet.

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Speaker 1: George. All right, dear, I'm coming. The nursery light flicked

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on as they came down the hall.

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Speaker 3: The relays clicked in, the tubes warmed, and chemical odor,

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banks and pipes bubbled into life as they paused before

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the closed door.

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Speaker 8: Go ahead, George.

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Speaker 3: On all sides, in three dimensions stretched, the hot, tired

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landscapes of an African velt reproduced to the last stick

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and pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them

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became a sky with the hot yellow sun, a wind

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blew in from the baked veltland, the hot straw smell

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of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden

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water hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the howl

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of the jackal in the distance, and the papery rustling

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of the great vultures that wheeled and circled under the

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yellow burning sun.

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Speaker 1: Let's get out of this sun. It's a little too reel, George.

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Speaker 8: You promised you'd look around.

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Speaker 1: Well, I don't see anything.

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Speaker 8: Wait a minute.

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Speaker 1: There are the vultures, filthy creatures.

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Speaker 4: There there are the lions far over that way as

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Speaker 8: Them, they're on their way to the water hole.

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Speaker 1: They've just eaten some animal, a zebra or a baby

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giraffe maybe, Can you see it?

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Speaker 8: Are you sure?

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Speaker 1: It's a little late to be sure. Nothing over there

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but clean bone and the vultures swooping down to what's left.

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Speaker 8: Did you hear that scream?

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Speaker 1: What scream about?

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Speaker 6: A moment ago?

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Speaker 1: Sorry?

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Speaker 8: No, oh, here come the lions, George Frightening take it

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easy video.

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Speaker 1: They're just illusion.

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Speaker 3: The lions were fifteen feet away, so real, so startlingly real.

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You could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and

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your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of

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their heated pelts, and the yellow of them was in

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your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite tapestry. The

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yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of

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the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide, and

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the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mark.

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Speaker 4: Joj, I'm afraid they're so really an illusion lydia, that's all.

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Speaker 1: Watch out, how quick.

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Speaker 4: They almost got it.

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Speaker 1: I'll take it easy, Calm down. I could feel it

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get a hold of yourself with here. They aren't real wolves,

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that's all it is, crystalloid wolves. They look so, of

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course they do, but it's all dimensional color reactionary process,

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a metal tape film behind glass screens. It's all oderphonics

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and sonics. Oh here, let's take my head.

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Speaker 4: I'm afraid did you see?

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Speaker 8: Did you feel it? It's too real?

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Speaker 4: And we've got to tell Wendy and Peter not to

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read anymore on Africa. Of course, of course I want

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you to lock that place up.

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Speaker 1: But you know how difficult Peter is about that. I

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punished him last week by locking the nursery for an

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afternoon and he threw a tent from and Wendy too

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where they live for the nurses.

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Speaker 8: It's got to be locked, That's all there is to it.

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Speaker 1: You've been working too hard Lydia. You need a rest.

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Speaker 8: I don't know. Maybe I don't have enough to do.

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I have too much time to think.

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Speaker 4: All I do is set the menu selected dials at

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the beginning of the week.

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Speaker 1: But that's the whole idea.

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Speaker 4: The house is automatic, I know, but couldn't we turn

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it off for about a week and take a vacation.

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Speaker 1: You mean you want to fry eggs for.

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Speaker 4: Me, and darn socks. I feel like I don't belong here.

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The house is wife and mother and maid. How can

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I compete with the African.

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Speaker 8: Belts, George?

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Speaker 4: Those lions can't get out of there, can they?

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Speaker 1: Of course not, Dear, I don't think about it anymore.

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They ate along.

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Speaker 3: He sat idly, watching the dining room table produce warm

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dishes of food from its mechanical interior.

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Speaker 1: You forgot to catch up, sh That's better. It wouldn't

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hurt to lock the children out of the nursery for

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a while.

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Speaker 3: It was clear that they had been spending too much

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time in Africa.

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Speaker 1: But Sun, he could feel it on his neck.

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Speaker 3: Still, like a hot paw and a lions and the

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smell of blood. Remarkable how the nursery caught the telepathic

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emanations of the children's minds and created a life to

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fulfill their desires. The children thought zebras, and there were zebras,

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son son, giraffes, giraffes, death and death.

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Speaker 1: They were so young. But long before you knew what death.

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Speaker 3: Was, you were wishing it on someone else. But this,

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the long hot African belt, the awful death in the

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Jaws of a Lion and repeated it again and.

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Speaker 1: Again and again. The children came home dutifully at eight thirty.

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Speaker 4: Hi Mom, Hi Pop?

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Speaker 8: Do you want something to eat?

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Speaker 1: Deer?

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Speaker 8: We're just having dessert.

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Speaker 6: We're full of strawberry ice cream and hot dog. We'll

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just sit and watch.

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Speaker 1: Sure, uh, Peter, tell us about the nursery. The nursery

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all about Africa and everything.

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Speaker 6: I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: Well, your mother and I were just traveling through Africa

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with Roden Reil.

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Speaker 6: There's no Africa in the nursery.

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Speaker 1: Oh, come now, Peter, we know better.

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Speaker 6: I don't remember any Africa. Do you win? Huh? Go

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run and see huh. Sure, I'll be right now.

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Speaker 1: Wendy, come back here, Wendy.

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Speaker 6: Oh, she'll be right back.

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Speaker 8: Pop.

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Speaker 1: She doesn't have to. I've seen it.

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Speaker 6: Come on, sure, Pop, but Wendy, you'll tell us.

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Speaker 1: Open the door.

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Speaker 6: See, Dottie, it's.

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Speaker 1: Not in Africa.

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Speaker 6: It's floddy like in Bandy. There go the deer. See

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it is in Africa.

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Speaker 1: I see it isn't Go to bed, but it isn't

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nine o'clock. You heard me go to bed?

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Speaker 6: Okay, good night, Mom, good night, Pop, good night.

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Speaker 8: Good night dear, I'll be right here.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, look at this.

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Speaker 4: What is it?

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Speaker 1: This is the corner where the lions were, isn't what

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is that?

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Speaker 8: You picked up.

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Speaker 1: An old wallet of mine. There's a smell of hot

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grass on it, the smell of a lion. It's wet

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with saliva. It's been chewed, George.

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Speaker 8: Those smears her blood.

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Speaker 1: Come on out. Now, let's go to bed. But in

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the middle of the night he was still awake, and

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he knew his wife was awake.

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Speaker 4: George, how did your wallet get in the nursery?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Wendy must have changed the walls from

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the African velt. I'm going to keep it locked. Maybe

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it isn't good for the children. My father used to say.

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Children are like carpets. They should be stepped on occasionally.

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We've never lifted a hand. They're spoiled. And where spoiled.

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I think I'll have doctor McLean come tomorrow morning and

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have a look at Africa.

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Speaker 4: But it isn't Africa now, it's Florida and Bambi.

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Speaker 1: I have a feeling it'll be Africa again before then.

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Speaker 3: Although they're automatic, sum no beds tried hard. The two

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adults could not be rocked to sleep for another hour.

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Speaker 1: A smell of cats.

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Speaker 3: Was in the night air, and in the morning the

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stove cooked French toast, and the dining room table poured

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the syrup and melted butter.

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Speaker 6: Pop, you aren't gonna lock up the nursery for good,

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are you?

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Speaker 1: That all depends on what I'm You and your sister.

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Speaker 8: We feel you should have some variety here.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't want the nursery locked up ever.

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Speaker 1: Well. As a matter of fact, we're thinking of turning

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the whole house off for about a month, sort of

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camping out.

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Speaker 4: Be fun for a change, now, don't you think so, Wendy, No.

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Speaker 6: It'd be Oh. I don't want to do anything but

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look and listen and smell. What else is there to do?

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Speaker 1: Oh? All right, all right, go play in Africa?

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Speaker 6: Are you going to shut off the house soon?

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Speaker 1: We're considering it.

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Speaker 6: I don't think you better consider it any more.

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Speaker 1: Pop, I won't have any threats from you.

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Speaker 6: Okay, Pop, Come on, Wendy, let's get back.

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Speaker 3: After breakfast. Doctor David McLean arrived.

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Speaker 5: I saw the nursery last year, George. It looked all

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right to me. You didn't notice anything unusual. No, the

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patterns showed the usual violence, a tendency towards slight paranoia.

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All children feel persecuted by their parents are perfectly normal.

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There there it is suppose we take a look at it.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 3: They entered without knocking and sent the children out. The

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screams had faded, and the lions were feeding quietly under

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the trees.

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Speaker 1: I wish I could see what they really How long

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has this been going on a little over a month?

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Certainly doesn't feel good. I don't want feelings, I want facts.

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Speaker 5: George psychologists never saw a fact in his life. He

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knows about feelings. And this doesn't feel good. And my

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advice to you is to have the whole room torn

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down and your children brought to me every day for

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the next.

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Speaker 1: Year of a treatment. Is it that bad? I'm afraid so,

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you know.

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Speaker 5: That's why the nursery was developed, originally to let us

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examine the patterns left on the wall by a child's mind.

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Speaker 1: But what is it? What's wrong with Peter and Wendy.

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It's hard to say. I haven't punished them more than average. Oh,

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I took away a few gadgets last week. I locked

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the nursery to show I meant business.

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Speaker 5: You've let this room replace you and your wife and

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your children's affections. This room is their real father and mother,

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and now you come along and want to shut it.

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But you can feel the hatred coming out of that sky. George,

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turn everything off, the nursery, the automatic kitchen, the whole

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automatic house to start now. But won't the shock be

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too much for the time? I don't want them going

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any deeper. Let's get out of here. Never liked these rooms.

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Speaker 1: Those lions look real, don't they. I don't suppose there's

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any way what that they could become real, not that

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I know, some flaw in the machinery tampering. No, I

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don't imagine the room will like being turned off. Nothing

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you ever likes to die, even a room. I wonder

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if it hates me for turning it off. Parah, No

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air is thick today? Hello? Is this your scaff stained

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brown blood? That's Lydia's come on the main fuse boxes

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out here, Go ahead, pull the switch. Yeah, it's off.

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The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and kicked

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and threw things.

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Speaker 3: They yelled and sobbed and swore and jumped on the

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furniture weeping.

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Speaker 1: It's off, and it stays off. The whole house dies

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as of now. He marched around the house, cutting switches

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and pulling fuses.

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Speaker 6: Don't let them do it. Don't let Pop kill everything.

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I hate you, I hate you.

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Speaker 1: Insults won't catch you anywhere.

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Speaker 6: I wish you were dead.

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Speaker 1: We were for a long while. Now we're gonna start

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really living instead of being handled. And besides, we're going

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to live once more.

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Speaker 6: Daddy, just once more, one more minute of the nursery.

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That's all. Just one more minute, Oh.

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Speaker 4: George, it can't hurt really.

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Speaker 1: Oh all right, all right, only shut up one minute

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and that's the end. Hoerever.

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Speaker 6: Gee, thanks Pop, Thanks, and.

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Speaker 1: Then we're going on a vacation. McLean is coming in

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half an hour to help us out. Lydia, turn on

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the nursery for just a minute.

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Speaker 6: Oh boy, come on, Wendy, come on. Thanks Daddy, thanks

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a lot.

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Speaker 1: Just one minute. Remember now, would I put those suitcases, Lydia.

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Speaker 4: Don't shout, George, I'm right here. Did you leave them

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alone in the nurse Well, I've got to get ready, George.

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Speaker 1: Well, I guess we better get them out of there

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before they get involved with those beasts. Again. Ho ho,

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Come here, yady, Come on quick, Wendy Peter, what's the matter?

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Hurry up? Open the nursery, Wendy, Peter.

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Speaker 4: They aren't anywhere, Wendy.

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Speaker 1: Peter, Peter the door. Open the door. They locked up

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from the outside.

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Speaker 8: Peter, Peter, Wendy Peter, open the door.

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Speaker 1: Let us help Peter, open the door. It's time to go.

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Open the door.

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Speaker 8: George, the lions.

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Speaker 1: Peter, dear hear me, open this door.

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Speaker 4: All roundness, George.

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Speaker 9: Sun Son, dear hemmy, let us out.

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Speaker 3: When doctor David McLean came half hour later, he found

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the two children in the nurseries, sitting in the center

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of the open glade, eating a picnic lunch.

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Speaker 1: Beyond them was the water hole in the yellow veltland.

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Above was the hot sun. At a distant doctor McLean saw.

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Speaker 3: The lions fighting and clawing, and then settling down to

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feed in silence under the shady trees.

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Speaker 1: Hi, kids, were your mom and dad?

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Speaker 6: Oh, they'll be here directly.

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Speaker 1: Good, we've got to get along. He squinted at the

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lions with his hands up to his eyes. Now they

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were done feeding, and they moved to the water hole

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to drink.

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Speaker 3: A shadow flickered as the vultures dropped down from the

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blazing sky to finish what the lions left Doctor mcgreen.

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Speaker 6: Doctor mcgreen, huh, what have a cup of tea?

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Speaker 5: Which concludes my report to date. There were no lions,

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of course, not in a physical sense. Lydia and George

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were devoured. However, almost as surely as if there had

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been lions, Their personalities were devoured by the mechanistic marvels

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which had usurped their role as parents. All four members

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of the family are under intensive therapy now and are

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doing as well as can be expected. Send that by

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teleroop misus owen would you ask George Abbott to step inside?

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Speaker 1: I'm ready for him now.

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Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the

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National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers

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of astounding science fiction. Tonight by transcription, X minus one

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has brought you the Velt, written by Ray Bradbury and

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adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy. Featured in the cast

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were Mary Patton, Bill Quinn, David Feffer, Beverly Lunceford, Charles

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Penman and John Larkin.

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Speaker 1: You're announcer Fred Cohn.

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Speaker 2: X minus one was directed by Dan sutter And is

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an NBC Radio Network production