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And the Moon Be Still as Bright [episode 19], Broadcast 9/22/1955 · X Minus One | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Calm down for blast off X minus five four three
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  Speaker 2: two x minus one fire From the far horizons of
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  Speaker 2: the unknown come transcribed tales of new dimensions in time
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  Speaker 2: and space. These are stories of the future adventures in
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  Speaker 2: which you'll live in a million, could be years, on
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  Speaker 2: a thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe worlds.
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  Speaker 2: The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith,
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  Speaker 2: publishers of Astounding science fiction, presents minus one.
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  Speaker 4: One one.
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  Speaker 2: To Night the Ray Bradbury story entitled and the Moon
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  Speaker 2: Be Still as Bright A.
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  Speaker 5: The first three expeditions from Mars left Earth in a
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  Speaker 5: mushroom of flame, arked through the atmosphere, and finally dwindled
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  Speaker 5: the tiny specks in the big eye of the Mount
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  Speaker 5: Palomar telescope, and then were lost to sight forever. The
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  Speaker 5: pre arranged landing signals flashed back to Earth, and then
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  Speaker 5: the radios went dead. One after the other ships had
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  Speaker 5: disappeared and were never heard from again. But still the
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  Speaker 5: rockets came. The fourth expedition emerged from the silent gulphs
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  Speaker 5: of space, angled down toward the floating red disc of Mars,
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  Speaker 5: down into an orbit.
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  Speaker 6: As the order came to.
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  Speaker 5: The last blast of the bow jets broke red against
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  Speaker 5: the blue desert sands, and the ship slid to a
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  Speaker 5: halt at the edge of a vast city that reflected
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  Speaker 5: the icy glare of the moonlight.
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  Speaker 6: For a while, all was still all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, Park you'll open the air.
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  Speaker 4: Lock, I sir, fresh air. It's cold out here. Who cares?
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  Speaker 4: We got here? I thought I never hit solid ground again.
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  Speaker 4: You help out of fire, Captain Wild, he is freezing.
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  Speaker 7: Later, we have work to do.
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  Speaker 4: Oh smell that air. Why you can get drunk on it?
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  Speaker 4: Say there's an idea. Why don't we break out a
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  Speaker 4: bottle and celebrate, Beggs.
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  Speaker 7: There will be no drinking done till we're secured.
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  Speaker 4: But we're landed, Captain.
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  Speaker 8: Three other expeditions landed and disappeared within twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 8: Now we're not relaxing security till we find out what
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  Speaker 8: happened to them.
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  Speaker 6: What do you mean, maybe, Martian.
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  Speaker 8: Sender, you're an archaeologist. How old would you say they are?
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  Speaker 1: I can't tell till I studied them more closely. It's
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  Speaker 1: a kind of engineering we couldn't duplicate on Earth.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I'm not interested in the architecture now. I want
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  Speaker 8: to make sure there's nothing there that might be dangerous.
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  Speaker 8: That's to Hathaway, And yes, sir, I want you and
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  Speaker 8: Spender to take a reconnaissance party into the city and
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  Speaker 8: find out what's there.
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  Speaker 7: We'll set up camp here.
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  Speaker 8: No man is to go more than fifty feet from
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  Speaker 8: this rocket, and there'll be no celebration. Jill Hathaway and
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  Speaker 8: his party report back.
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  Speaker 5: In the sea bottoms. The wind stirred along faint vapors,
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  Speaker 5: and from the mountains great stone visites looked upon the
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  Speaker 5: silvery rocket and the small fire.
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  Speaker 6: The sky was black overhead.
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  Speaker 5: As the two racing moons threw knife edge double shadows
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  Speaker 5: on the desert.
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  Speaker 4: All right, come and get it down. What you got the.
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  Speaker 9: Jackie sawtas smothered in cold old chicken fat good.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was How much, couldn't he?
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  Speaker 10: Hey, Captain mister Hathaway's back, Oh, Captain Captain Wilder.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, yes, so they're here. It is Hathaway.
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  Speaker 11: Well, most of the city's dead. Spender says, it's been
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  Speaker 11: dead a good many thousand years. But we found one
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  Speaker 11: part about a mile over. People were living in it
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  Speaker 11: last week's or.
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  Speaker 6: People, martians. Why are they not dead?
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  Speaker 1: We found bodies, thousands of bodies. They hadn't been dead
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  Speaker 1: more than ten days. Why did they diets? You won't
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  Speaker 1: believe it. What killed them?
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  Speaker 6: Chicken pox? Chicken pox? Yes, where could they get chicken
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  Speaker 6: pox from earth? Oh? Then the other rockets did get
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  Speaker 6: through it.
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  Speaker 11: Yes, I don't know what the Martians did to them,
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  Speaker 11: but I sure know what they did to the Martians.
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  Speaker 11: They gave them chicken pox and wiped them out. They
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  Speaker 11: just didn't have any resistance to an earth disease.
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  Speaker 3: Think of it, Captain.
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  Speaker 1: A race builds itself for a million years, refines itself,
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  Speaker 1: does everything it can to give it self respect and beauty,
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  Speaker 1: and then it dies.
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  Speaker 3: What it's like saying.
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  Speaker 1: The Greeks died of mumps or the proud Roman Empire.
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  Speaker 6: Collapsed because of Athletes's foot.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't even give them a decent excuse for dying.
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  Speaker 3: We just gave them chicken pot.
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  Speaker 8: Then, get hold of yourself. You didn't see those bodies, Captain,
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  Speaker 8: I know it must have been a shock. You need
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  Speaker 8: a rest, little relaxation. The Martians are dead. There's nothing
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  Speaker 8: you can do about that.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Hey, you hear that the Martians are all dead.
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  Speaker 10: Come on, let's break out a bottle hold how about.
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  Speaker 1: A case, say, good lord, they have to do that now.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't there time later to throw old beer cans into
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  Speaker 1: the canals?
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  Speaker 8: And you're an idealist, they're not. All they know now
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  Speaker 8: is that they're safe. Little shouting won't hurt you think
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  Speaker 8: too much.
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  Speaker 10: I was safe on Mars, the first earthman on Mars.
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  Speaker 4: We're gonna celebrate.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty bottles were opened and drunk.
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  Speaker 5: The voices got louder, the earth laughs and shouts echoing
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  Speaker 5: across the empty Martian sands. Spender listened to the wind
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  Speaker 5: over his ears, cool and whispering. He felt the land
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  Speaker 5: getting cooler. The stars drew closer, very near. The air
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  Speaker 5: smelled clean and you. He looked at the cool ice
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  Speaker 5: of the white Martian buildings over there on the empty sea, lends.
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  Speaker 4: What a warmer? Hey, what do we do with this
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  Speaker 4: empty bottle? Sam? Stupid? There's a two cents to pass.
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  Speaker 7: Away?
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  Speaker 10: Wait, wait at about that building? Thre the one on
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  Speaker 10: the bucket, And he went right through that window. You're right,
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  Speaker 10: he goes double ring on the next shot.
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  Speaker 4: Put that bottle down, Biggs. Oh there, mister Spender.
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  Speaker 3: Up smashing those windows.
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  Speaker 7: Oh that said.
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  Speaker 10: Difference a plents hours Now, I guess I can do
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  Speaker 10: anything more that I want.
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  Speaker 4: Drop that bottle, or I'll lock your teeth up. Ah
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  Speaker 4: and just watch me.
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  Speaker 3: I warned you, Bigger.
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  Speaker 4: Spender.
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  Speaker 6: I hit him.
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  Speaker 4: He's crazy, Captain, he just walked on the slot man.
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  Speaker 8: Spender, you come with me, now, I suppose you explained
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  Speaker 8: that was the idea of the noise, the drunken bra
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  Speaker 8: under the man at tired. This has been a long trip,
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  Speaker 8: and you have a different way of seeing things.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm seeing things all right. I'm seeing how we'll
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  Speaker 3: ruin Mars.
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  Speaker 1: We'll rip it up and rip the skin off the
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  Speaker 1: way we've already ruined Earth.
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  Speaker 7: Is that why you hit big Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't stand the idea of them watching us make.
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  Speaker 3: Fools of our themselves.
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  Speaker 6: Damn the Martians.
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  Speaker 4: They're dead, they're all dead, but.
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  Speaker 1: They know we're here. Doesn't an old thing always know
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  Speaker 1: when a new thing comes. We'd come a long way
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  Speaker 1: to smash their windows and spit in their wine.
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  Speaker 8: Well, maybe you're right, but I'm still going to find
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  Speaker 8: you fifty dollars for that fight. Now, come on, Spender,
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  Speaker 8: sucking your chin, we'll go back there and play happy.
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  Speaker 5: Now they moved out into the moonlight across the desert.
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  Speaker 5: They made their way into the dreaming dead city. The
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  Speaker 5: light of the racing twin moons glinted on the barrel
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  Speaker 5: of a pistol, the long blade of a machete, the round,
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  Speaker 5: gurgling shape of a raised bottom. The wind blew in
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  Speaker 5: from the dead sea bottom and brushed through the silvery
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  Speaker 5: wire filigree of the towers. Strange music, if you drifted
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  Speaker 5: down to the double shadowed streets, a thin, haunted music
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  Speaker 5: that played as it had played through the uncounted years
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  Speaker 5: of time. Nobody moved. The moon's held and froze them.
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  Speaker 5: The wind beat slowly around them.
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  Speaker 10: Ay, hey, people in the city, heggs, I just want
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  Speaker 10: to make a little eyes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm kind of a celebration. Is this anyway?
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  Speaker 7: Come on?
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  Speaker 1: They built this city thousands of years ago, and now
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  Speaker 1: where are they?
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  Speaker 3: How do they die?
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  Speaker 4: Who cheers it dead? That's good enough for me.
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  Speaker 1: Lord Byron want Lord Byron a nineteenth century poet. He
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  Speaker 1: wrote a poem that fits this city might have been
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  Speaker 1: written by the last Martian poet. So we'll go no more,
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  Speaker 1: A roving so late into the night, though the heart
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  Speaker 1: beat still as loving, though the moon be still as bright,
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  Speaker 1: for the sword outwears it she and the soul outwears
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  Speaker 1: its breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, and
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  Speaker 1: love itself must rest, though the night was made for loving,
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  Speaker 1: and the day returns too soon.
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  Speaker 3: Yet we'll go no more, a roving by the light
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  Speaker 3: of the moon.
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  Speaker 5: Without a word. The earthmen stood in the center of
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  Speaker 5: the city. It was a clear night. There was not
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  Speaker 5: a sound except the music of the wind. At their
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  Speaker 5: feet lay a tile court worked into the shapes of
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  Speaker 5: ancient animals and images. They stood there, silvered by the
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  Speaker 5: double moons, beneath the crystal towers of Mars. And then
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  Speaker 5: Biggs was sick, and the sour stench of liquor filled
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  Speaker 5: the cool air. The men of Earth had come to Mars,
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  Speaker 5: and Spender turned and walked away into the sea alone
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  Speaker 5: in the moonlight, never once stopping to look back. It
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  Speaker 5: was a morning that might have been a Monday, or
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  Speaker 5: a Tuesday, or any day on Mars. Biggs was on
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  Speaker 5: the canal rim, his feet hung down in the cool water,
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  Speaker 5: soaking while he took the sun in his face.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, what are you doing back here, Bigs? Didn't you
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  Speaker 3: go out with the search party? Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I come back.
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  Speaker 6: I got a blister.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
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  Speaker 7: Look a cherck?
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  Speaker 3: You see that?
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  Speaker 4: Anyway?
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  Speaker 12: I had enough search in four days hunting for that
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  Speaker 12: screwball Spender.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't find him. Huh A good riddance.
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  Speaker 12: Oh my feet, I'm gonna soak him in the canal.
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  Speaker 12: If I was wilder, I wouldn't worry about that nuts spinder.
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  Speaker 7: Let him go.
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  Speaker 4: He's a cracked pot.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, here's a little foggy upstairs.
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  Speaker 9: I guess, Hey, why don't you take your feet out
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  Speaker 9: of that canal?
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  Speaker 3: Bigs. I gotta make coffee out of that water? Coffee?
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  Speaker 4: You call it stuff coffee.
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  Speaker 7: I had a motorcycle.
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  Speaker 4: Wants to drip grease and taste it.
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  Speaker 6: But he look over there where.
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  Speaker 3: By that bush. There's someone there. Hey, it's him.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, spender, Spender, he's coming.
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  Speaker 4: Over when he stay lost, A crazy jerk.
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  Speaker 3: High spender A long time. No see hello, Jerokee. I've
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  Speaker 3: been exploring some ruins. Oh, you and them ruins.
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  Speaker 4: You're like a dog in a boneyard.
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  Speaker 7: What's the matter? I want just say something?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, you ben up on the hills. What would you
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  Speaker 1: say if I told you I found a Martian.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, where?
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  Speaker 3: Never mind?
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  Speaker 6: Let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: How would you feel if you were a Martian and
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  Speaker 1: people came to your land and started to tear it up?
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  Speaker 9: I know how i'd feel. I've got Cherokee blooding me.
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  Speaker 9: My grandfather told me a lot of things about the
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  Speaker 9: way they kicked the Indians around in the Oklahoma Territory.
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  Speaker 9: If there's any Martian around, I'm all for him.
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  Speaker 3: How about you, Biggs?
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  Speaker 7: Dead?
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  Speaker 4: They're all dead.
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  Speaker 6: There's a good thing too well.
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  Speaker 1: I found a Martian up in a dead town on
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  Speaker 1: the hills. I've been reading their books and they're easy
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  Speaker 1: to understand, and I've learned their language. And then I
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  Speaker 1: found this Martian and I brought him here.
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  Speaker 3: Now I don't see no Martians. I'm the last Martian.
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  Speaker 4: What are you saying, Biggs, I'm going to kill you?
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  Speaker 4: Are trying it out? What kind of a lousy joke is?
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  Speaker 10: I don't put that gun away?
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  Speaker 7: Your kidding?
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  Speaker 4: Eh? I sprender your.
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  Speaker 6: He's dead.
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  Speaker 3: You killed him.
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  Speaker 1: You can come with me, Cherokee. You're an Indian. You
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  Speaker 1: know how the Martians would feel. You can be with
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  Speaker 1: me in this.
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  Speaker 3: You killed him, you you just killed him. He deserved it.
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  Speaker 3: You're crazy, maybe I am, but you can come with me.
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  Speaker 4: Go with you for what Go I get out of
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  Speaker 4: You're crazy murderer.
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  Speaker 7: Follow them.
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  Speaker 3: I thought you'd unders tend. I thought you'd remember what
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  Speaker 3: happened to your own people. You get out of here,
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  Speaker 3: you're crazy murdering.
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  Speaker 4: Don't reach for the gun, Spender, Spinder.
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  Speaker 8: Hathaway, break out the arms locker issue pistols, rifles and grenades. Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 8: and you'd better get the Bible out of the navigation
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  Speaker 8: chess to. You have to bury these two park you
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  Speaker 8: start digging a grave.
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  Speaker 6: How about Spender, We will have to go up in
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  Speaker 6: the hills and find them. Just let me get them
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  Speaker 6: with my bare hands. A crazy, murdering.
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  Speaker 7: Loud man is sick. You must pick my eye en.
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  Speaker 7: I'll grab a shovel and start digging.
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  Speaker 5: Spenders saw the thin dust rising in the and he
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  Speaker 5: knew the pursuit was beginning. The sun burned farther up
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  Speaker 5: the sky, and the blue sand drifted lazily across the
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  Speaker 5: sea bottom below. He sat beside a quiet pool ten
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  Speaker 5: thousand years old and held a silver book. Through the
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  Speaker 5: house played the strange wind music of ancient Mars and
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  Speaker 5: he heard voices whisper in his mind. I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I've always heard you, even down there on earth. No,
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  Speaker 1: I won't run. What's the use live foot four to
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: see them tear down your temples and put up hot
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  Speaker 1: dog stems.
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  Speaker 6: They've seen me now they know I'm up here.
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  Speaker 3: They're wilder.
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  Speaker 6: Now I've got to write my sights.
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  Speaker 3: Kill money.
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  Speaker 1: He hasn't ordered them to use grenades. They could love
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  Speaker 1: one right up here and blow me the bit. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: the captain thinks I'm too nice to be blown to bits.
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  Speaker 1: He wants my death to be clean, just one bullet
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  Speaker 1: hole in me, nothing messy. And why because he understands me,
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  Speaker 1: the only one of the crew who ever did well.
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  Speaker 3: At least I can do the same for him.
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  Speaker 1: Just one bullet in his head, a nice clean death kill.
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  Speaker 6: All I have to do is pull the trigger in there.
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  Speaker 12: You said, can't do Tom Sander, Spender?
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  Speaker 4: Can you hear me, Spender? I hear you, Captain?
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  Speaker 3: What do you want trou.
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  Speaker 4: All right?
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  Speaker 7: My up?
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  Speaker 6: Leave your gun down there and keep your hands up.
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  Speaker 8: You know that's quite a climb. You wouldn't mind if
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  Speaker 8: I sit down? How long do you think you can
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  Speaker 8: hold out? Until you're all dead. Oh, why didn't you
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  Speaker 8: kill all of us this morning? When I had the
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  Speaker 8: chance you could have? I know, I got sick after
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  Speaker 8: I started killing people.
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  Speaker 1: I realized they were just fools and I shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: killing them. But it was too late, so I came
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  Speaker 1: up here where I could get angry again. Why did
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  Speaker 1: you do it? When I was a kid, my folks
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  Speaker 1: took me to visit Mexico City. I'll always remember the
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  Speaker 1: way my father acted loud and big, and my mother
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  Speaker 1: didn't like the people because she thought they didn't wash enough.
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  Speaker 1: I can see my mother and my father coming to
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  Speaker 1: Mars and acting the same way.
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  Speaker 6: Anything that's strange is no good to us.
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  Speaker 3: We aren't fit to take over this planet.
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  Speaker 6: But to kill two men, How.
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  Speaker 1: Would you feel if a Martian spit on the White
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  Speaker 1: House floor?
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  Speaker 6: You know you haven't acted very civilized yourself.
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  Speaker 3: I'll kill you all off Wilder.
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  Speaker 1: That'll delay the next rocket five years, and then i'll
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  Speaker 1: kill them too.
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  Speaker 3: And if I'm lucky, i'll live.
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  Speaker 1: To be sixty, and I'll meet every expedition that lands
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  Speaker 1: on Mars.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, I'll be very friendly.
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  Speaker 1: I'll explain our rocket blew up one day and then I'll.
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  Speaker 6: Kill them off.
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  Speaker 1: I'll save Mars for half a century, and by then
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  Speaker 1: maybe the Earth people will give up.
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  Speaker 8: And yet you're outnumbered. We already have you surrounded. In
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  Speaker 8: an hour you will be dead.
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  Speaker 3: I found an underground passage. It'll take me back in
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  Speaker 3: the hills Wilder. I'll go back there, and then i'll
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  Speaker 3: pick you off one by one.
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  Speaker 6: We'll see. It's a nice town you've got here, spended,
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  Speaker 6: it's beautiful. I'd like to live here. You can join me.
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  Speaker 1: You'll not like them, Why go back to them, Captain,
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  Speaker 1: I'll show you what a good life these people had.
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  Speaker 6: I'll all no, there's too much Earth blood in me.
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  Speaker 8: I may even agree with you about all this, but
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  Speaker 8: that does not change what I must do.
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  Speaker 6: You won't stay now. This is your last chance, Spender.
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  Speaker 6: Look you're sick, now, come along with me. Quiet, No, no, one,
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  Speaker 6: last thing. If you win, do me a favor. Try
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  Speaker 6: to see that they don't tear this planet apart.
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  Speaker 1: Right, and if it helps, just think of me as
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: a very crazy fellow who went perserved one summer day.
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  Speaker 6: Be easier on you that way. I'll think that over it.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: So long spending, Bye.
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  Speaker 5: Captain, good luck, The men spread out again, walking and
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: then running on the hot hillside, places where there would
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: be sudden coup grottos that smelled of moss, and sudden
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: open blasting places that smelled of sun or stone. The
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: men ran and ducked, and ran and squatted in the shadows.
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  Speaker 5: A Captain Wilder hugged the rock worn by the sun
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  Speaker 5: a gasp, for the air was thin and not meant
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  Speaker 5: for running. Spender lay at the top of a hill,
• 20:21
  Speaker 5: and a gap in the rocks showed the white of
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: his shirt against the shadows. Wilder looked at the towers
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: of the little clean Martian village, like sharply carved chest.
• 20:30
  Speaker 6: Pieces lying in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: He saw the rocks and the interval between where Spender's
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: chest was revealed.
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  Speaker 8: Go on, Spender, get out. You only got a few
• 20:47
  Speaker 8: seconds to escape. Go on, get out of the caves.
• 20:50
  Speaker 8: Come back later, you go.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: Now. I've got to win this. I've got to think
• 20:58
  Speaker 6: that I'm right the trigger. Go now, get out.
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  Speaker 4: I'll get him a slugging ahead of blows Bunny park Hill.
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: Put down that gun. I'll do this myself.
• 21:15
  Speaker 6: Spender, why didn't you get out? Why?
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Why? Why?
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: They buried him in that ancient valley town where the
• 21:38
  Speaker 5: music of the wind played on through the days and
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: the nights. They laid him in an ancient silver sarcophagus
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: with waxes and wines which were ten thousand years old,
• 21:49
  Speaker 5: his hands folded on his chest. The last they saw
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: at him was his peaceful face in the cold silver
• 21:55
  Speaker 5: light of the racing twin moons. The captain found the
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: poemons Spender's pocket, and he read it before he shut
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  Speaker 5: the marble door.
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  Speaker 8: So we'll go no more a roving, so late into
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: the night, though the heart be still as loving, and
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: the moon be still as bright, though the night was
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: made for loving.
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: And the day returns too soon. Yet we'll go no
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: more a roving by the light of the moon.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: The next afternoon, park Hill did some target practice in
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: one of the dead cities, shooting out the crystal windows
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: and blowing the tops off the fragile towers. Captain Wilder
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: caught park Hill and nearly knocked his teeth up.
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  Speaker 2: You have just heard X minus one, presented by the
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  Speaker 2: National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith, publishers
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  Speaker 2: of astounding science fiction. To Night by transcription. X minus
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  Speaker 2: one has brought You The Ray Bradbury Story and The
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: Moon Be Still as Bright, adapted for radio by Ernest Cannoy.
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  Speaker 2: Featured in the cast were John Larkin, Clark Gordon Dick Hamilton,
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  Speaker 2: Nelson Olmsted, Lawrence Kerr, and Stannerley. Your narrator was Norman Rose.
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  Speaker 2: You're announcer Fred Collins. X minus one was directed by
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  Speaker 2: Daniel Sutter and is an NBC Radio Network production. X
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  Speaker 2: X minus minus one one