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X Minus One - "The Veldt" (1955) · Old Time Sci-Fi Radio | Old Time Radio

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  Speaker 1: On August fourth, nineteen fifty five, NBC aired the twelfth
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  Speaker 1: broadcast of X minus one Tonight's story. Ray Bradberry's The
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  Speaker 1: Velt was adapted for radio by Ernest Kinoy from Bradbury's
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  Speaker 1: short story, with Daniel Sutter directing. In the automated Happy
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  Speaker 1: Life Home, George and Lydia Abbott have grown concerned about
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  Speaker 1: their children's nursery, where crystalline walls turn thought into lifelike surroundings.
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  Speaker 1: The room keeps returning to an African velt, and psychologist
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  Speaker 1: doctor David McLean is asked to look into the matter.
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  Speaker 1: We now take you back to the original broadcast.
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  Speaker 2: Com Doom for blastof X minus five four three two
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  Speaker 2: X minus one fire from the far horizons of the
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  Speaker 2: unknown come transcribe tales of new dimensions in time and space.
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  Speaker 2: These are stories of the future adventures in which you'll
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  Speaker 2: live in a million, could be years, on a thousand,
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  Speaker 2: maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street
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  Speaker 2: and Smith, publishers of Astounding Science Fiction, presents.
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  Speaker 3: HE minus minus one one one to night story Ray
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  Speaker 3: Bradbury's tale, The Veldt.
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  Speaker 4: This is the office of Doctor David McLean, Resident psychiatrist
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  Speaker 4: 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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  Speaker 5: Charles S. Haworth, senior psychiatrist, New Chicago Institute of Human Engineering.
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  Speaker 5: The following constitutes my report on the case of George
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  Speaker 5: and Lydia Abbott, which we discussed by telephone. Subject George
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  Speaker 5: relates onset of symptoms to the purchase of a sixty
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  Speaker 5: thousand dollars soundproofed happy life home under narcosynthesis. During initial interviews,
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  Speaker 5: Subject described the experience of the following manner. Miss Carver,
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  Speaker 5: would you play back the sonic record of the initial interview.
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  Speaker 6: We've always wanted one, and then we could afford it.
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  Speaker 7: So on, mister Abbott, tell me about the home.
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  Speaker 6: The home, Well, it was supposed to do everything the
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  Speaker 6: agent told us, and it did, I guess. It clothed us,
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  Speaker 6: fed us and rocked us to sleep, played and sang
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  Speaker 6: and it.
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  Speaker 7: Was good to us, very good.
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  Speaker 6: Sure.
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  Speaker 7: Tell me about the nursery. The nursery. The nursery, Ah,
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  Speaker 7: it was completely automatic, completely automatic.
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  Speaker 6: There were crystalline walls that wavered from two to three dimensions.
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  Speaker 6: There were pseudo textured floors that shifted from brick to
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  Speaker 6: dirt to waving grass. The nursery was the best, But
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  Speaker 6: then we wanted the best for the children.
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  Speaker 7: Doctor, I must be crazy. We have no children. What
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  Speaker 7: about Peter and Wendy. They're your children.
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  Speaker 6: Oh no, no, we have no children, doctor, we have
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  Speaker 6: no children.
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  Speaker 7: All right, cover to continue.
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  Speaker 5: After three sessions, the subject was able to recall and
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  Speaker 5: accept the idea that he had two children. He described
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  Speaker 5: the first day.
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  Speaker 8: All right, Peter, Wendy, this is your nursery.
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  Speaker 9: What's so special about a nursery?
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  Speaker 8: Dad, Wendy. Just go in and see.
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  Speaker 10: Do we have to you'll be surprised.
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  Speaker 11: Gee, go ahead, I'm scared.
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  Speaker 9: I'm not.
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  Speaker 12: Hey, it's nice in here, it is. Come on in, Wendy. Boy,
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  Speaker 12: look at the pictures on the walls.
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  Speaker 10: They're real.
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  Speaker 11: They're almost real. You can change them anyway you like,
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  Speaker 11: just by figuring.
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  Speaker 12: Go on, Indy, Well, all right, Nanny, Hey Wendy, look
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  Speaker 12: what I can do with the pictures.
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  Speaker 9: That's the right radding ours in Wonderland. Sure, I just
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  Speaker 9: thought about it, and there it was. Let me try, Pierre,
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  Speaker 9: let me try. We'll go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: Just think.
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  Speaker 9: How about wizarding us? I want to see wizard in us?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 8: There, there we are.
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  Speaker 10: Oh they like it.
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  Speaker 8: Why shouldn't they?
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  Speaker 11: All I have to do is think, and they've got
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  Speaker 11: whatever they want in three dimensions, color, sound, and smell.
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  Speaker 13: Oh it's nice that we can give them all the advantages.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, what else are we working for?
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  Speaker 11: Huh?
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  Speaker 8: Well, what do you want to do this evening?
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  Speaker 10: Well, the Peterson's asked us over for bridge.
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  Speaker 7: But oh, we.
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  Speaker 11: Don't have to worry about the kids. They'll be all
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  Speaker 11: right in the nursery. Come on, Lvia, we deserve a
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  Speaker 11: night out.
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  Speaker 4: And in the nursery the walls were a kaleidoscope of
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  Speaker 4: time and space and imagination. The green forest of Sherwood
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  Speaker 4: and the quiet forms of Robin and his merry men
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  Speaker 4: gave way to the role of the high seas and
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  Speaker 4: the smell of salt in the air. As Sir Henry
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  Speaker 4: Morgan sailed into the harbor at Jamaica, and behind the
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  Speaker 4: crystalline courtz walls, the vacuum tubes and grids and banks
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  Speaker 4: of metal image tapes spun quietly and efficiently, erasing the
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  Speaker 4: line between illusion and reality. Of course, the electric bill
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  Speaker 4: from Consolidated Utilities was tremendous, but it was worthless. The
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  Speaker 4: happy life home breathed contentedly as life proceeded with soft automaticity,
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  Speaker 4: as guaranteed in the brochure and bill of sale.
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  Speaker 13: George M George, I wish you'd look at the nursery's
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  Speaker 13: what's wrong with it? I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I was in the nursery last week. It's perfectly all right.
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  Speaker 10: It's different now, what do you mean different? I want
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  Speaker 10: you to come and see.
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  Speaker 8: Are the kids there?
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  Speaker 10: No, Madge Allen took them to a show along with
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  Speaker 10: her kids.
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  Speaker 13: That's why I want you to look at it now
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  Speaker 13: before they get back.
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  Speaker 8: All right, What you expect me to do? I don't know.
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  Speaker 8: I'm no mechanic.
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  Speaker 10: This isn't a question of a leaky faucet.
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  Speaker 14: George.
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  Speaker 11: All right, dear, I'm coming. The nursery light flicked on
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  Speaker 11: as they came down the hall.
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  Speaker 4: The relays clicked in, the tubes warmed, and chemical odor,
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  Speaker 4: banks and pipes bubbled into life as they paused before
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  Speaker 4: the closed door.
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  Speaker 10: Go ahead, George, open it.
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  Speaker 4: On all sides in three dimensions stretched the hot, tired
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  Speaker 4: landscapes of an African velt reproduced to the last stick
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  Speaker 4: and pebble and bit of straw. The ceiling above them
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  Speaker 4: became a sky with a hot yellow sun, a wind
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  Speaker 4: blew in from the baked veltland, the hot straw smell
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  Speaker 4: of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden waterhole,
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  Speaker 4: the great rusty smell of.
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  Speaker 11: Animals, the howl of the.
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  Speaker 4: Jackal in the distance, and the papery rustling of the
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  Speaker 4: great vultures that wheeled and circled under the yellow, burning sun.
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  Speaker 8: Let's get out of this sun. It's a little too real, George.
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  Speaker 10: You promised you'd look around.
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  Speaker 8: Well, I don't see anything.
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  Speaker 10: Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 11: There are the vultures, filthy creatures. There.
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  Speaker 13: There are the lions far over that way as I
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  Speaker 13: see them.
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  Speaker 10: But they're on their way to the water hole.
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  Speaker 11: They've just eaten some animal, a zebra or a baby
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  Speaker 11: giraffe maybe.
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  Speaker 10: Can you see it? Are you sure?
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  Speaker 8: It's a little late to be sure.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing over there but clean bone and the vultures swooping
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  Speaker 11: down to what's left.
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  Speaker 10: Did you hear that scream?
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  Speaker 8: What scream about?
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  Speaker 10: A moment ago?
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  Speaker 8: Sorry?
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  Speaker 10: No, oh, here come the lions, George, frightening.
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  Speaker 7: Take it easy, Lydia, They're just illusion.
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  Speaker 4: The lions were fifteen feet away, so real, so startlingly real.
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  Speaker 4: You could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and
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  Speaker 4: your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of
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  Speaker 4: their heated pelts.
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  Speaker 11: And the yellow of them was in your eyes like
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  Speaker 11: the yellow of an exquisite tapestry.
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  Speaker 4: The yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound
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  Speaker 4: of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide,
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  Speaker 4: and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mind.
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  Speaker 10: George, I'm afraid they're so.
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  Speaker 8: Real early an illusion, Lydia, that's all.
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  Speaker 11: Watch how quick outside they almost God, I'll take it easy,
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  Speaker 11: Calm down, I could feel this.
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  Speaker 8: Get a hold of yourself, Ridia. They aren't real walls,
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  Speaker 8: that's all. It is.
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  Speaker 11: Crystalloid wolves the book. Sorry, of course they do, but
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  Speaker 11: it's all dimensional color, reactionary process, a metal tape film
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  Speaker 11: behind glass screens. It's all oderphonics and sonics. Oh here,
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  Speaker 11: take my head.
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  Speaker 10: I'm afraid did you see did you feel it? It's
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  Speaker 10: too real. No, we've got to tell Wendy and Peter
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  Speaker 10: not to read anymore on Africa.
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  Speaker 11: Of course, of course I.
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  Speaker 10: Want you to lock that place up.
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  Speaker 11: But you know how difficult Peter is about that. I
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  Speaker 11: punished him last week by locking the nursery for an
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  Speaker 11: afternoon and he threw a tantrum. And Wendy too. Where
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  Speaker 11: they live for the.
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  Speaker 10: Nurses, it's got to be locked. That's all there is
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  Speaker 10: to it.
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  Speaker 7: You've been working too hard Lydia.
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  Speaker 8: You need a rest.
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  Speaker 10: I don't know. Maybe I don't have enough to do
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  Speaker 10: much time to think.
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  Speaker 13: All I do is set the menu selected dials at
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  Speaker 13: the beginning of the week.
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  Speaker 11: But that's the whole idea. The house is automatic, I know,
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  Speaker 11: but couldn't we turn it off for about a week
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  Speaker 11: and take a vacation.
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  Speaker 8: Do you mean you want to fry eggs for me?
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  Speaker 10: And darn socks? I feel like I don't belong here.
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  Speaker 10: The house is wife and mother and maid.
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  Speaker 13: How can I compete with the African belts, George?
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  Speaker 10: Those lions can't get out of there, can they?
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  Speaker 8: Of course not, Dear, I don't think about it anymore.
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  Speaker 11: They ate along.
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  Speaker 4: He sat idly watching the dining room table produce warm
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  Speaker 4: dishes of food from its mechanical interior.
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  Speaker 11: You forgot to catch up. That's better.
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  Speaker 4: It wouldn't hurt to lock the children out of the
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  Speaker 4: nursery for a while it was clear that they had
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  Speaker 4: been spending too much time in Africa. At sun he
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  Speaker 4: could see it on his neck still, like a hot
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  Speaker 4: paw and a lion, and the smell of blood. Remarkable
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  Speaker 4: how the nursery caught the telepathic emanations of the children's
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  Speaker 4: minds and created a life to fulfill their desires. The
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  Speaker 4: children thought zebras, and there were zebras, son, son, giraffes, giraffes,
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  Speaker 4: death and death.
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  Speaker 11: They were so young.
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  Speaker 4: But long before you knew what death was, you were
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  Speaker 4: wishing it on someone else. But this, the long hot
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  Speaker 4: African belt, the awful death in the jars of a lion,
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  Speaker 4: and repeated again and again and again. The children came
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  Speaker 4: home dutifully at eight thirty.
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  Speaker 9: Hi Mom, Hi Popa.
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  Speaker 10: Do you want something to eat? Deer, We're just having dessert.
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  Speaker 9: We're full of strawberry ice cream. We'll just sit and watch.
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  Speaker 11: Sure, Uh, Peter, Uh tell us about the nursery.
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  Speaker 9: The nursery all.
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  Speaker 7: About Africa and everything.
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  Speaker 9: I don't understand.
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  Speaker 11: Well, your mother and I were just traveling through Africa
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  Speaker 11: with Roden Rail.
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  Speaker 9: There's no Africa in the nursery.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, come now, Peter, we know better.
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  Speaker 9: I don't remember any Africa, do you win? Huh? Go
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  Speaker 9: run and see huh. Sure, I'll be right now.
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  Speaker 8: Wendy, come back here, Wendy.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, she'll be right back.
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  Speaker 10: Pop.
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  Speaker 8: She doesn't have to. I've seen it.
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  Speaker 12: Come on, sure, Pop, but Wendy, you'll tell us open
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  Speaker 12: the door.
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  Speaker 9: See, Daddy, it's not Africa. It's Friday like in Bandy.
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  Speaker 9: There go the deer. See it is in Africa.
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  Speaker 8: I see it isn't.
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  Speaker 9: Go to bed, but it isn't nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 8: You heard me go to bed?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, good night Mom, good night, Pop, good night.
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  Speaker 10: Good night dear. I'll be riding it.
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  Speaker 8: Wait a minute, look at this.
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  Speaker 10: What is it?
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  Speaker 11: This is the corner where the lions were, isn't What
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  Speaker 11: is that? You picked up an old wallet of lion.
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  Speaker 11: There's a smell of hot grass on it, the smell
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  Speaker 11: of a lion. It's wet with saliva.
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  Speaker 10: It's been chewed, George, those smears her blood.
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  Speaker 8: Come on out.
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  Speaker 7: Now, let's go to bed.
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  Speaker 11: But in the middle of the night he was still awake,
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  Speaker 11: and he knew his wife was awake.
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  Speaker 10: George, how did your wallet get in the nursery?
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 11: When they must have changed the walls from the African velt.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to keep it locked. Maybe it isn't good
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  Speaker 11: for the children. My father used to say children are
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  Speaker 11: like carpets. They should be stepped on occasionally. We've never
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  Speaker 11: lifted a hand. They're spoiled, and where spoiled. I think
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  Speaker 11: I'll have doctor McLean come tomorrow morning and have a
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  Speaker 11: look at Africa.
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  Speaker 10: But it isn't Africa now, it's Florida and Bambi.
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  Speaker 11: I have a feeling it'll be Africa again before then.
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  Speaker 4: Although they're automatic, sum no bed is tried very hard.
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  Speaker 4: The two adults could not be rocked to sleep for
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  Speaker 4: another hour.
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  Speaker 11: A smell of cats.
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  Speaker 4: Was in the night air, and in the morning the
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  Speaker 4: stove cooked French toast and the dining room table poured
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  Speaker 4: the syrup and melted butter.
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  Speaker 12: Popf You are gonna lock up the nursery for good?
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  Speaker 8: Are you? That all depends on what I'm You and
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  Speaker 8: your sister.
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  Speaker 10: We feel you should have some variety here.
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  Speaker 9: I wouldn't want the nursery locked up ever.
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  Speaker 7: Well.
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  Speaker 11: As a matter of fact, we're thinking of turning the
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  Speaker 11: whole house off for about a month.
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  Speaker 8: Sort of camping out.
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  Speaker 10: Be fun for a change now, don't you think so, Wendy.
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  Speaker 12: No, it'd be Oh. I don't want to do anything
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  Speaker 12: but look and listen and smell. What else is there
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  Speaker 12: to do?
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  Speaker 8: Oh? All right, all right, go play in Africa?
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  Speaker 9: Are you going to shut off the house soon?
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  Speaker 8: We're considering it.
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  Speaker 9: I don't think you better consider it any more.
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  Speaker 11: Pop, I won't have any threats from you, son.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, Pop, come on, Wendy, let's get back.
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  Speaker 11: After breakfast. Doctor David McLean arrived.
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  Speaker 7: I saw the nurse last year.
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  Speaker 8: George.
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  Speaker 11: It looked all right to me. You didn't notice anything unusual.
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  Speaker 5: No, the patterns showed the usual violence, a tendency towards
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  Speaker 5: slight paranoia. All children feel persecuted by their parents are
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  Speaker 5: perfectly normal.
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  Speaker 7: There there it is suppose we take a look at
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  Speaker 7: it now.
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  Speaker 4: They entered without knocking and sent the children out. The
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  Speaker 4: screams had faded, and the lions were feeding quietly under
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  Speaker 4: the trees.
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  Speaker 11: I wish I could see what they really How long
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  Speaker 11: has this been going on a little over a month?
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  Speaker 7: Certainly doesn't feel good.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want feelings. I want facts.
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  Speaker 5: George a psychologists never saw a fact in his life.
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  Speaker 5: He knows about feelings and this doesn't feel good. My
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  Speaker 5: advice to you is to have the whole room torn
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  Speaker 5: down and your children brought to me every day.
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  Speaker 7: For the next year of a treatment.
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  Speaker 8: Is it that bad?
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  Speaker 7: Afraid?
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  Speaker 5: So you know, that's why the nursery was developed, originally
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  Speaker 5: to let us ext and the patterns left on the
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  Speaker 5: wall by a child's mind.
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  Speaker 4: But what is it?
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  Speaker 11: What's wrong with Peter and Wendy. It's hard to say
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  Speaker 11: I haven't punished them more than average. Oh, I took
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  Speaker 11: away a few gadgets last week. I locked the nursery
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  Speaker 11: 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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  Speaker 5: your children's affections. This room is their real father and mother,
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  Speaker 5: and now you come along and want to shut it.
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  Speaker 5: But you can feel the hatred coming out of that sky. George,
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  Speaker 5: turn everything off, the nursery, the automatic kitchen, the whole
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  Speaker 5: automatic house to start now.
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  Speaker 11: But won't the shock be too much for the time.
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  Speaker 11: I don't want them going any deeper. Let's get out
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  Speaker 11: of here, never like.
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  Speaker 7: These rooms and get the nervous.
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  Speaker 8: Those lions look real, don't they.
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  Speaker 11: I don't suppose there's anyway but that they could become real,
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  Speaker 11: not that I know, some flaw in the machinery tampering. No,
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  Speaker 11: I don't imagine the room will like being turned off.
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  Speaker 11: Nothing ever likes to die, even a room.
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  Speaker 8: I wonder if it hates me for turning it off.
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  Speaker 5: Para and no air is thick today?
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  Speaker 7: Hello? Is this your scarf? Stained brown blood?
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  Speaker 8: That's Lilia's.
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  Speaker 11: Come on the main fuse boxes out here, Go ahead,
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  Speaker 11: pull the switch. Yeah, it's off.
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  Speaker 4: The two children were in hysterics. They screamed and kicked
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  Speaker 4: and threw things. They yelled and sobbed and swore and
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  Speaker 4: jumped on the furniture, weeping.
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  Speaker 8: It's off, and it stays off.
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  Speaker 11: The whole house dies as of now.
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  Speaker 4: He marched around the house, cutting switches and pulling fuses.
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  Speaker 12: Don't let them do it, don't let pop kill everything.
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  Speaker 9: I hate you, I hate you.
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  Speaker 8: Insults won't catch you anywhere.
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  Speaker 9: I wish you would did.
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  Speaker 11: We were for a long while. Now we're going to
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  Speaker 11: start really living instead of being handled. And besides, we're
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  Speaker 11: going to live.
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  Speaker 12: Once more, Daddy, just once more, one more minute of
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  Speaker 12: the nursery, that's all, Just one more minute, Oh.
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  Speaker 10: George, it can't hurt really.
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  Speaker 11: Oh all right, all right, only shut up one minute
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  Speaker 11: and that's the end forever.
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  Speaker 9: Geez, Thanks Pop, Thanks.
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  Speaker 8: And then we're going on a vacation.
• 20:38
  Speaker 11: Doctor McLean is coming in half an hour to help
• 20:40
  Speaker 11: us out, Lydia.
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  Speaker 8: Turn on the nursery for just a minute.
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  Speaker 9: Oh boy, come on, Wendy, come on. Thanks Daddy, thanks
• 20:49
  Speaker 9: a lot.
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  Speaker 8: Just one minute. Remember, I would like put those suitcases, Lydia.
• 20:54
  Speaker 10: Don't shout, George, I'm right here.
• 20:56
  Speaker 8: Did you leave them alone in the nurse.
• 20:58
  Speaker 10: Well, I've got to get ready, George.
• 21:00
  Speaker 11: Well, I guess we better get them out of there
• 21:01
  Speaker 11: before they get involved with those beasts again.
• 21:03
  Speaker 14: Ho ho, come here, Yny, come.
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  Speaker 11: On quick, Wendy Peter, what's the matter. Hurry up?
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: Open the nurse Wendy, Peter.
• 21:16
  Speaker 10: They aren't anywhere, Wendy, Peter.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: Peter the door.
• 21:21
  Speaker 11: Open the door they locked up from the outside, Peter, Peter.
• 21:27
  Speaker 10: Wendy Peter, open the door.
• 21:29
  Speaker 11: Do you let us help Peter open the door. It's
• 21:32
  Speaker 11: time to go open the door, George, the lions, Peter.
• 21:39
  Speaker 8: Do you hear me open this door?
• 21:43
  Speaker 14: Around this?
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  Speaker 11: George son Son, do you hear me?
• 21:48
  Speaker 14: Let us out side? George.
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  Speaker 4: When doctor David McLean came half hour later, he found
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  Speaker 4: the two children in the nurseries, sitting in the center
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: of the open glade eating a picnic lunch. Beyond them
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: was the water hole and the yellow veltland.
• 22:21
  Speaker 11: Above was the hot sun.
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  Speaker 4: At a distant doctor MacLean saw the lions fighting and clawing,
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: and then settling down to feed in silence under the
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: shady trees.
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  Speaker 7: Hi, kids, were your mom and dad?
• 22:33
  Speaker 9: Oh, they'll be here directly.
• 22:35
  Speaker 14: Good.
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Good, We've got to get along.
• 22:41
  Speaker 11: He squinted at the lions with his hands up to
• 22:43
  Speaker 11: his eyes. Now they were done.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: Feeding, and they moved to the water hole to drink.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: A shadow flickered as the vultures dropped down from the
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: blazing sky to finish what the lions left.
• 22:56
  Speaker 9: Doctor mcgreen. 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,
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: of course, not in a physical sense. Lydia and George
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: were devoured. However, almost as surely as if there had
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: been lions, their personalities were devoured by the mechanistic marvels
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: which had usurped their role as parents. All four members
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: of the family are under intensive therapy now and are
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: doing as well as can be expected. Send that by teleerrope,
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: Miss carvern Oh, and would you ask George Abbott to
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: step inside.
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: I'm ready for him.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Now you have just heard X minus one, Presented by
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: the National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Street and Smith,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: publishers of astounding science fiction by transcription, X minus one
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: has brought you The Velt, written by Ray Bradbury and
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: adapted for radio by Ernest Canoy. Featured in the cast
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: were Mary Patton, Bill Quinn, David Feffer, Beverly Lunsford, Charles Penman,
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: and John Larkin.
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: You're announcer Fred Collen.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: X minus one was directed by Dan Sutter and is
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: an NBC Radio Network production.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: X minus one has concluded Ray Bradbury's The Velt. Good evening,
• 24:37
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• 24:41
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