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R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots)-Karel Čapek · Slaves to the Metal Horde

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  Speaker 1: Act one of r U R by Carol Kapek, translated
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  Speaker 1: by Paul Silver eighteen eighty eight nineteen seventy. This is
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  Speaker 2: R U R.
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  Speaker 1: Rossum's Universal Robots by Carol Kapek, translated by Paul Silver
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  Speaker 1: and Nigel Playfair. Robots of the World, The Power of
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  Speaker 1: Man has fallen, A new world has arisen. The Rule
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  Speaker 1: of the Robots. March Characters Harry Doman read by Todd.
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  Speaker 3: Sulla read by Tina Broughton, Marius read by Rosslyn Carlyle, Helena.
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  Speaker 4: Glory read by Saratery.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Gall read by Barry Streyford. Mister Fabry read by
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  Speaker 1: James Callahan, Doctor Hallemeyer read by Steve Toner, Mister.
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  Speaker 5: Lst read by Beth Thomas.
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  Speaker 1: Consul Bussman read by Steve Toner, Nana.
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  Speaker 6: Read by k Hand Radius read by t.
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  Speaker 1: Lane, A Servant Helena read by Sarati. Primus read by Todd.
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  Speaker 3: First Robot day Tina Broughton.
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  Speaker 1: Second Robot by Kitty K. Third Robot by Mary K.
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  Speaker 7: Fourth Robot by Rosslyn Carlyle.
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by John Trevivick. Act one, Central office of
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  Speaker 1: the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots entrance on the right.
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  Speaker 1: The windows on the front wall look out on the
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  Speaker 1: rows of factory chimneys on the left, more managing departments.
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  Speaker 1: Doman is sitting in the revolving chair at a large
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  Speaker 1: American writing table on the left hand wall. Large maps
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  Speaker 1: showing steamship and railroad routes. On the right hand wall
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  Speaker 1: are fastened printed placards Robot's Cheapest labor, et cetera. In
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  Speaker 1: contrast to these wall fittings, the floor is covered with
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  Speaker 1: a splendid Turkish carpet, a sofa, leather arm chair and
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  Speaker 1: filing cabinets. At a desk near the windows, Sulla is
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  Speaker 1: typing letters, Doman dictating.
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  Speaker 8: Ready yes to E. M. Mac vicker and Company, Southampton, England.
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  Speaker 8: We undertake no guarantee for goods damaged in transit. As
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  Speaker 8: soon as the consignment was taken on board, we drew
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  Speaker 8: your captain's attention to the fact that the vessel was
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  Speaker 8: unsuitable for the transport of robots, and we are therefore
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  Speaker 8: not responsible for spoiled freight. We beg to remain for
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  Speaker 8: Rossum's Universal Robots.
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  Speaker 1: Yours truly, Sulla, who has set motionless during dictation, now
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  Speaker 1: types rapidly for a few seconds, then stops withdrawing the
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  Speaker 1: completed letter.
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  Speaker 8: Ready. Yes, Another letter to the E. B. Hoisen Agency,
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  Speaker 8: New York, USA. We beg to acknowledge receipt of order
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  Speaker 8: for five thousand robots. As you are sending your own vessel,
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  Speaker 8: please dispatch as cargo equal quantities of soft and hard
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  Speaker 8: coal for R. You are the same to be credited
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  Speaker 8: as part payment of the amount due to us. We
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  Speaker 8: beg to remain for Rossum's Universal Robots.
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  Speaker 1: Yours truly, Sulla, repeats the repid typing Ready.
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  Speaker 3: Yes.
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  Speaker 8: Another letter friedrichsbercks Hamburg, Germany. We beg to acknowledge receipt
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  Speaker 8: of order for fifteen thousand robots.
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  Speaker 1: Telephone rings Hello, this.
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  Speaker 8: Is the Central Office. Yes, certainly, well send them a wire.
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  Speaker 1: Good hangs up telephone?
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  Speaker 8: Where did I leave off?
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  Speaker 3: We beg to acknowledge receipt of order for fifteen thousand robots.
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  Speaker 8: Fifteen thousand R fifteen thousand and are into Marius. Well,
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  Speaker 8: what is it?
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  Speaker 7: There's a lady sir asking to.
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  Speaker 8: See you a lady. Who is she?
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  Speaker 7: I don't know, Sir. She brings this card of introduction.
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  Speaker 1: Dooman reads the card, Ah from President Glory.
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  Speaker 8: Ask her to come in.
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  Speaker 1: Please step this way, enter Helena Glory. Exit, Marius.
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  Speaker 4: How do you do?
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  Speaker 8: How do you do?
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  Speaker 1: Standing up?
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  Speaker 8: What can I do for you?
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  Speaker 4: You are mister Doman, the general manager.
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  Speaker 8: I am. I have come with President Glory's card. That
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  Speaker 8: is quite sufficient.
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  Speaker 4: President Glory is my father. I am Helena Glory.
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  Speaker 8: Miss Glory. This is such a great honor for us
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  Speaker 8: to be allowed to welcome our great President's daughter.
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  Speaker 4: That that you can't show me the door.
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  Speaker 8: Please sit down, Sola, you.
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  Speaker 1: May go exit Sullah sitting down.
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  Speaker 8: How can I be of service to you, Miss Glory?
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  Speaker 8: I have come to have a look at our famous
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  Speaker 8: works where people are manufactured like all visitors. Well, there
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  Speaker 8: is no objection.
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  Speaker 4: I thought it was forbidden to to answer the factory.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, of course, everybody comes here with someone's visiting card.
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  Speaker 4: Miss Glory, and you show them.
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  Speaker 8: Only certain things. The manufacturer of artificial people is a
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  Speaker 8: secret process.
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  Speaker 4: If only you knew how enormously.
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  Speaker 8: That interests me. Europe's talking about nothing else?
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  Speaker 4: Why don't you let me finish speaking?
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  Speaker 8: I beg your pardon. Do you want to say something different?
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  Speaker 4: I only wanted to ask.
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  Speaker 8: Whether I could make a special exemption in your case
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  Speaker 8: and show you our factory. Why, certainly, miss Glory, How
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  Speaker 8: do you know?
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to say that they all do.
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  Speaker 8: But we shall consider it a special honor to show
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  Speaker 8: you more than we do the rest. Thank you, but
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  Speaker 8: you must agree not to divulge the least.
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  Speaker 1: Helena standing up and giving him her hand.
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  Speaker 4: My word of honor.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you. Why don't you raise your veil?
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  Speaker 4: Of course you want to see whether I'm a spy
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  Speaker 4: or not. I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: Would you mind releasing my hand?
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  Speaker 1: Doman releasing it?
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  Speaker 8: I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 1: Helena raising her veil.
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  Speaker 4: How cautious you have to be here, don't you?
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  Speaker 9: Mummm?
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  Speaker 1: Of course observing her with deep interest?
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  Speaker 8: Wei, that is?
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  Speaker 4: But what is it? What's the matter?
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  Speaker 8: I'm remarkably pleased. Did you have a pleasant crossing? Yes,
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  Speaker 8: no difficulty. Why what I mean to say is you're
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  Speaker 8: so young?
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  Speaker 4: May we go straight into the factory?
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  Speaker 9: Yes?
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  Speaker 8: Twenty two?
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  Speaker 4: I think twenty two? What here's twenty one? Why do
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  Speaker 4: you want to.
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  Speaker 8: Know, because as you will make a long stay, won't you.
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  Speaker 4: That depends on how much of the factory you show me.
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  Speaker 8: Oh oh, hang the factory. Oh no, no, you will
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  Speaker 8: see everything, Miss Glory. Indeed you shall, won't you sit down?
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  Speaker 1: Helena crossing to couch and sitting.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you?
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  Speaker 8: But first, would you like to hear the story of
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  Speaker 8: the invention?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, indeed, observes Helena with rapture and reels off rapidly.
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  Speaker 8: It was in the year nineteen twenty that Old Rossum,
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  Speaker 8: the great physiologist, who was then quite a young scientist,
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  Speaker 8: took himself to this distant island for the purpose of
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  Speaker 8: studying the ocean fauna full stop. On this occasion, he
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  Speaker 8: attempted by chemical synthesis to imitate the living matter known
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  Speaker 8: as protoplasm, until he suddenly discovered a substance which behaved
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  Speaker 8: exactly like living matter, although its chemical composition was different.
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  Speaker 8: That was in the year of nineteen thirty two, exactly
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  Speaker 8: four hundred forty years after the discovery of America.
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  Speaker 4: Whew, do you know that?
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  Speaker 5: By heart?
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  Speaker 8: Yes? You see, physiology is not in my line. Shall
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  Speaker 8: I go on?
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  Speaker 4: Yes? Please?
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  Speaker 8: Well, then, Miss Glory, Old Rossam wrote the following among
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  Speaker 8: his chemical specimens. Nature has found only one method of
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  Speaker 8: organizing living matter. There is, however, another method, more simple, flexible,
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  Speaker 8: and rapid, which has not yet occurred to nature at all.
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  Speaker 8: This second process by which life can be developed was
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  Speaker 8: discovered by me to day. Now imagine him, Miss Glory,
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  Speaker 8: writing those wonderful words over some colloidal mess that a
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  Speaker 8: dog wouldn't look at. Imagine him sitting over a test
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  Speaker 8: tube and thinking how the whole tree of life would
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  Speaker 8: grow from it, how all animals would proceed from it,
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  Speaker 8: beginning with some sort of beetle, and ending with a man,
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  Speaker 8: a man of different substance from us, Miss Glory. That
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  Speaker 8: was a tremendous moment. Well, now, the thing was how
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  Speaker 8: to get the life out of the test tube and
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  Speaker 8: hasten development and form organs, bones and nerves and so on,
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  Speaker 8: and find such substances as catalytics, enzymes or moones and
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  Speaker 8: so forth. In short, you wonders, and not much, I'm
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  Speaker 8: afraid never mind. You see, with the help of his tinctures,
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  Speaker 8: he could make whatever he wanted. He could have produced
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  Speaker 8: a medusa with the brain of a Socrates, or a
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  Speaker 8: worm fifty yards long. But being without a grain of humor,
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  Speaker 8: he took it into his head to make a vertebrate,
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  Speaker 8: or perhaps a man. This artificial living matter of his
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  Speaker 8: had a raging thirst for life. It didn't mind being
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  Speaker 8: sewn reor mixed together. That couldn't be done with natural album.
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  Speaker 8: And that's how he set about it. About what about
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  Speaker 8: imitating nature? First of all, he tried making an artificial dog.
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  Speaker 8: That took him several years and resulted in a sort
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  Speaker 8: of stunted calf, which died in a few days. I'll
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  Speaker 8: show it to you in the museum. And then Old
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  Speaker 8: Rossam started on the manufacture of man.
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  Speaker 4: And I must divulge this to nobody.
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  Speaker 8: To nobody in the world.
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  Speaker 4: What a pity that it's to be found in all
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  Speaker 4: the school books of both Europe and America.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, but do you know what isn't in the school books?
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  Speaker 8: That Old Rossom was mad? Seriously, miss glory. You must
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  Speaker 8: keep this to yourself. The old crank actually wanted to
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  Speaker 8: make people.
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  Speaker 4: But you do make people.
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  Speaker 8: Approximately, miss glory. But Old Rossom met it literally. He
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  Speaker 8: wanted to become a sort of scientific substitute for God.
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  Speaker 8: He was a fearful materialist, and that's why he did
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  Speaker 8: it all. His sole purpose was nothing more or less
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  Speaker 8: than to prove that God was no longer necessary. Do
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  Speaker 8: you know anything about anatomy?
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  Speaker 2: Very little?
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  Speaker 8: Neither do I.
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 8: He then decided to manufacture everything as in the human body.
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  Speaker 8: I'll show you in the museum. The bungling attempt. It
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  Speaker 8: took him ten years to produce. It was to have
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  Speaker 8: been a man, but it lived for three days only.
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  Speaker 8: Then up came young Rossum, an engineer. He was a
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  Speaker 8: wonderful fellow, Miss Glory. When he saw what a mess
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  Speaker 8: of it the old man was making, he said, it's
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  Speaker 8: absurd to spend ten years making a man. If you
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  Speaker 8: can't make him quicker than nature, you might as well
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  Speaker 8: shut up shop. Then he set about learning anatomy for himself.
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  Speaker 4: There's nothing about that in the school books.
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  Speaker 8: No, the school books are full of paid advertisements and
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  Speaker 8: rubbish at that. What the school books say about the
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  Speaker 8: united efforts of the two great Rossums is all a
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  Speaker 8: fairy tale. They used to have dreadful rows. The old
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  Speaker 8: atheist hadn't the slightest conception of industrial matters. And the
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  Speaker 8: end of it was that young Rossum shut him up
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  Speaker 8: in some laboratory or other and let him fritter the
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  Speaker 8: time away with his monstrosities while he himself started on
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  Speaker 8: the business. From an engineer's point of view, Old Rossum
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  Speaker 8: cursed him, and before he died he managed to botch
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  Speaker 8: up two physiological horrors. Then one day they found him
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  Speaker 8: dead in the laboratory. And that's his whole story.
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  Speaker 4: And what about the young man.
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  Speaker 8: Well, any one who has looked in a human anatomy
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  Speaker 8: will have seen at once that man is too complicated,
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  Speaker 8: and that a good engineer could make him more simply.
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  Speaker 8: So young Rossam began to overhaul anatomy and tried to
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  Speaker 8: see what could be left out or simplified. In short,
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  Speaker 8: But isn't this boring, you.
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  Speaker 4: Miss glory, No, indeed you're it's it's awfully interesting, so.
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  Speaker 8: Young Rossam said to himself. A man is something that
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  Speaker 8: feels happy, plays the piano, likes going for a walk,
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  Speaker 8: and in fact wants to do a whole lot of
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  Speaker 8: things that are really unnecessary. Oh, that are unnecessary when
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  Speaker 8: he wants, let us say, to weave or count. Do
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  Speaker 8: you play the piano? Yes, that's good, But a working
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  Speaker 8: machine must not play the piano, must not feel happy,
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  Speaker 8: must not do a whole lot of other things. A
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  Speaker 8: gasoline motor must not have tassels or ornaments, Miss Glory.
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  Speaker 8: And to manufacture artificial workers is the same thing as
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  Speaker 8: to manufacture gasoline motors. The process must be of the
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  Speaker 8: simplest and the product of the best from a practical
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  Speaker 8: point of view. What sort of worker do you think
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  Speaker 8: is the best from a practical point of view? What
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  Speaker 8: what sort of worker do you think is the best
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  Speaker 8: from a practical point of view?
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  Speaker 4: Perhaps the one who is most honest and hard working.
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  Speaker 8: No, the one that is the cheapest, the one whose
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  Speaker 8: requirements are the smallest. Young Rossam invented a worker with
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  Speaker 8: the minimum amount of requirements. He had to simplify him.
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  Speaker 8: He rejected everything that did not contribute directly to the
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  Speaker 8: progress of work, everything that makes man more expensive. In fact,
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  Speaker 8: he rejected man and made the robot. My dear, Miss Glory,
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  Speaker 8: the robots are not people. Mechanically, they are more perfect
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  Speaker 8: than we are. They have an enormously developed intelligence, but
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  Speaker 8: they have no soul.
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  Speaker 4: How do you know they have no soul?
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  Speaker 8: Have you ever seen what a robot looks like inside? No?
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  Speaker 8: Very neat, very simple, really a beautiful piece of work,
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  Speaker 8: Not much in it, everything in flawless order. The product
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  Speaker 8: of an engineer is technically at a higher pitch of
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  Speaker 8: perfection than a product of nature.
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  Speaker 4: But man is supposed to be the product of God.
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  Speaker 8: All the worse, God hasn't the least notion of modern engineering.
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  Speaker 8: Would you believe that? Young Rossam then proceeded to play
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  Speaker 8: at being God.
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  Speaker 4: How do you mean?
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  Speaker 8: He began to manufacture super robots. Regular giants they were.
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  Speaker 8: He tried to make them twelve feet tall. But you
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  Speaker 8: wouldn't believe what a failure they were? A failure, yes,
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  Speaker 8: for no reason at all. Their limbs used to keep
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  Speaker 8: snapping off. Evidently our planet is too small for giants.
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  Speaker 8: Now we only make robots of normal size and of
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  Speaker 8: a very high class human finish.
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  Speaker 4: I saw the first robots at home. The town council
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  Speaker 4: bought them for I mean engaged them for work.
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  Speaker 8: Bot them, dear Miss Glory, robots are bought and sold.
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  Speaker 4: These were employed as street sweepers. I saw them sweeping.
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  Speaker 4: They were so strang and quiet.
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  Speaker 8: Rossum's Universal Robot Factory doesn't produce a uniform brand of robots.
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  Speaker 8: We have robots of finer and coarser grades. The best
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  Speaker 8: will live about twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: He rings for Marius.
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  Speaker 4: Then they die.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they get used up into Marius.
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  Speaker 8: Marius. Bring in samples of the manual labor robot.
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  Speaker 1: Exit Marius.
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  Speaker 8: I'll show you specimens of the two extremes. This first
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  Speaker 8: grade is comparatively inexpensive and is made in vast quantities.
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  Speaker 1: Marius re enters with two manual labor robots.
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  Speaker 8: There you are as powerful as a small tractor, guaranteed
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  Speaker 8: to have average intelligence. That will do Marius.
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  Speaker 1: Marius exits with robots.
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  Speaker 4: They make me feel so strange.
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  Speaker 1: Domin rings.
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  Speaker 8: Did you see my new typist?
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  Speaker 1: He rings for Sulla. I didn't notice her into Sulla.
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  Speaker 8: Sulla. Let miss Glory see you.
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  Speaker 4: So pleased to meet you. You must find it terribly
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  Speaker 4: dull in this out of the way spot, don't you.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, Miss Glory. Where do you come from
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  Speaker 3: from the factory?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: You were born there?
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  Speaker 3: I was made there?
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  Speaker 1: What thruman laughing?
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  Speaker 8: Sula is a robot best grade?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I beg your pardon.
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  Speaker 8: Sula isn't angry?
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  Speaker 1: Feels the skin on Sula's face?
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  Speaker 8: See miss Glory, the kind of skin we make?
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  Speaker 4: Oh no, no, I.
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  Speaker 8: You wouldn't know that she's made of a different material
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  Speaker 8: from us. Would you turn around, Sula, stop stop talk
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  Speaker 8: to miss Glory.
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  Speaker 3: Sula, please sit down, Helena sits Did you have a
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  Speaker 3: pleasant crossing?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, certainly.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go back on the Amelia, Miss Glory. The barometer
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  Speaker 3: is falling steadily. Wait for the Pennsylvania. That's a good,
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  Speaker 3: powerful vessel.
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  Speaker 8: What's its speed?
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  Speaker 3: Twenty knots fifty thousand tons, one of the latest vessels,
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  Speaker 3: Miss Glory.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: A crew of fifteen hundred captain harpy eight boilers.
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  Speaker 8: That'll do. Sula. Now show us your knowledge of French.
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  Speaker 4: You know French.
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  Speaker 3: I know four languages. I can write dear Sir, Monsieur Gutton,
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  Speaker 3: her tony pange.
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  Speaker 1: Helena jumping up, Oh that's absurd.
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  Speaker 4: Sola isn't a robot. Sola is a girl like me. Salah,
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  Speaker 4: this is outrageous. Why do you take part in such
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  Speaker 4: a hoax?
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  Speaker 3: I am a robot?
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  Speaker 4: No, No, you are not telling the truth. I know
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  Speaker 4: They've forced you to do it for an advertisement. Sala,
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  Speaker 4: you're a girl like me, aren't you.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Miss Glory. Sula is a robot.
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  Speaker 4: It's a lie.
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  Speaker 1: What rings excuse me?
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  Speaker 8: Miss Glory.
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  Speaker 1: Then I must convince you into Marius.
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  Speaker 8: Marius, take Sula into the dissecting room and tell them
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  Speaker 8: to open her up at once? Where into the dissecting room.
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  Speaker 8: When they've cut her open, you can go and have
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  Speaker 8: a look. No, no, excuse me, you spoke of lies.
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  Speaker 4: You wouldn't have her killed.
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  Speaker 8: You can't kill machines.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Don't be afraid, Selah, I won't let you go. Tell me,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: my dear, are they always so cruel to you? You
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: mustn't put up with it? Sellah, you mustn't.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I am a robot.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: That doesn't matter. Robots are just as good as we are.
• 18:22
  Speaker 9: Salah.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: You wouldn't let yourself be cut to pieces? Yes, you're
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: not afraid of death?
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Then I cannot tell Miss Glory.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Do you know what would happen to you in there?
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Yes? I should cease to move.
• 18:37
  Speaker 8: How dreadful, Marius, Tell Miss Glory what you are, Mary
• 18:42
  Speaker 8: is the robot. Would you take Sula into the dissecting room?
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: Would you be sorry for her?
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: I cannot tell what would happen to her. She would
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: cease to move. They would put her into the stamping mill.
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: That is death. Marius. Aren't you afraid of death? No?
• 19:04
  Speaker 8: You see miss Glory. The robots have no interest in life,
• 19:07
  Speaker 8: They have no enjoyments. They are less than so much grass.
• 19:12
  Speaker 8: Stop send them away, Marius, Sula, you may.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: Go Higsjuned Sulla and Marius.
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: How terrible. It's outrageous what you're doing.
• 19:24
  Speaker 8: Why outrageous?
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know, but it is. Why do you call
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: her Solah?
• 19:29
  Speaker 8: Isn't it a nice name?
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: It's a man's name. Sullah was a Roman general.
• 19:34
  Speaker 8: Oh, we thought that Marius and Sula were lovers.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Marius and Sollah were generals and fought against each other
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: in the year. No, I've forgotten.
• 19:43
  Speaker 8: Now come here to the window. What come here? What
• 19:48
  Speaker 8: do you see?
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: Bricklayers?
• 19:51
  Speaker 8: Robots. All our work people are robots. And down there
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: can you see anything?
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: Some sort of office.
• 20:00
  Speaker 8: A counting house, and in it a lot of officials robots.
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: All our officials are robots. And when you see the factory.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Factory whistle blows noon.
• 20:12
  Speaker 8: We have to blow the whistle because the robots don't
• 20:14
  Speaker 8: know when to stop work. In two hours, I will
• 20:17
  Speaker 8: show you the kneading trough.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: Kneading trough, the pestle for.
• 20:21
  Speaker 8: Beating up the paste. In each one we mix the
• 20:23
  Speaker 8: ingredients for a thousand robots at one operation. Then there
• 20:27
  Speaker 8: are the vats for the preparation of liver, brains and
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: so on. Then you will see the bone factory. After
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: that I'll show you the spinning mill. Spinning mill, yes,
• 20:37
  Speaker 8: for weaving nerves and veins. Miles and miles of digestive
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: tubes passed through it at a time.
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: Mayn't we talk about something else.
• 20:45
  Speaker 8: Perhaps it would be better. There is only a handful
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: of us among a hundred thousand robots, and not one woman.
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: We talk about nothing but the factory all day, every day.
• 20:54
  Speaker 8: It's just as if we were under a curse. Miss Glory.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry I said that you were lying.
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: A knock at the door. Come in from the right,
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: entered mister Fabrary, doctor gall doctor Halimiah, mister Elquist.
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: I beg your pardon. I hope we don't intrude.
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: Come in, Miss Glory. Here are Alquist, Fabrary, Gaul hall Meyer.
• 21:19
  Speaker 8: This is President Glory's daughter.
• 21:21
  Speaker 9: How do you do we have no idea?
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: Highly honored, I'm sure.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Welcome, Miss Glory.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Busman rushes in from the right.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Hello, what's up?
• 21:31
  Speaker 8: Come in, bussman. This is busman, Miss Glory. This is
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: President Glory's daughter.
• 21:36
  Speaker 11: By jove, that's fine, Miss Glory. May we send a
• 21:40
  Speaker 11: cable Graham to the papers about your arrival?
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: No? No, please don't.
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: Sit down, Please, Miss Glory allow me dragging up armchairs?
• 21:49
  Speaker 10: Please excuse me?
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: What sort of a crossing did you have?
• 21:53
  Speaker 10: Are you going to stay long?
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: What do you think of the factorymous Glory?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Did you come over on me? Amelia?
• 21:59
  Speaker 8: Be quiet? I'd let Miss Glory speak.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Helena two Doman?
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: What am I to speak to them about?
• 22:06
  Speaker 8: Anything?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: You like?
• 22:07
  Speaker 12: Shell?
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I speak quite frankly.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: Why, of course?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Tell me? Doesn't it? Doesn't it ever distress you? The
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: way you are treated by whom?
• 22:20
  Speaker 9: May I ask?
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Why everybody treated?
• 22:23
  Speaker 10: What makes you think?
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Don't you feel that you might be living a better life?
• 22:29
  Speaker 10: Well, that depends on what you mean, Miss Glory.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: I I mean that it's perfectly outrageous.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: It's terrible standing up.
• 22:35
  Speaker 9: The whole of.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Europe is talking about the way you're being treated. That's
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: why I came here to see for myself, and it's
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: it's a thousand times worse than could have been imagined.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: How can you put up with it? Put up with
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: what good heavens you're living? Creatures just like us, like
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: the whole of Europe, like the whole world. It's disgraceful
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: that you must live like this.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Good gracious Miss Glory.
• 22:57
  Speaker 9: Wow, she's not far wrong. We live here just like
• 23:00
  Speaker 9: red Indians.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: Worse than red Indians. May I, oh, may, I call
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: you brothers. Why not brothers. I have not come here
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: as the President's daughter. I have come on behalf of
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: the Humanity League. Brothers. The Humanity League now has over
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: two hundred thousand members. Two hundred thousand people are on
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: your side and offer you their help.
• 23:22
  Speaker 11: Two hundred thousand people, Miss Glory. That's a tidy lot,
• 23:27
  Speaker 11: not bad.
• 23:28
  Speaker 9: I'm always telling you there's nothing like good old Europe.
• 23:32
  Speaker 9: You see, they've not forgotten us. They're offering us help.
• 23:34
  Speaker 10: What help a theater, for instance, an.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Orchestra more than that?
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: Just you.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: Oh, never mind about me. I'll stay as long as
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: it is necessary.
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: By Jove, that's good, dummin.
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: I'm going to get the best room ready for Miss Glory.
• 23:50
  Speaker 8: Just a minute. I'm afraid the Miss Glory is of
• 23:53
  Speaker 8: the opinion that she has been talking to robots. Of course,
• 23:58
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry. Are human beings just like us.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: You're not robots, not robots robots.
• 24:08
  Speaker 9: Indeed, no thanks upon my owner, Miss Glory, we ain't robots.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Helena to Doman.
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: Then why did you tell me that all your officials
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: are robots.
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Yes, the officials, but not the managers. Allow me, Miss Glory.
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: This is mister Fabric, General Technical Manager of ru R,
• 24:27
  Speaker 8: Doctor gall head of the Psychological and Experimental Department, Doctor Hallimyer,
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: head of the Institute for the Psychological Training of Robots.
• 24:36
  Speaker 8: Council Bussman, General Business Manager, and Alquist, head of the
• 24:41
  Speaker 8: Building Department of r u R.
• 24:43
  Speaker 5: Just a builder.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: Excuse me, gentlemen, for have I done something dreadful?
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: Not at all, Miss Glory, Please sit down.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I'm a stupid girl. Send me back by the first ship.
• 24:57
  Speaker 10: Not for anything in the world, Miss Glory. Why should
• 25:00
  Speaker 10: we send you back.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: Because you know I've come to disturb your robots for you, My.
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: Dear Miss Glory, We've had clothes upon a hundred saviors
• 25:08
  Speaker 8: and profits.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Here.
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: Every ship brings us some missionaries, anarchists, salvation army, all sorts.
• 25:15
  Speaker 8: It's astonishing what a number of churches and idiots there
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: are in the world.
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: And you let them speak to the robots.
• 25:22
  Speaker 8: So far we've let them all. Why not The robots
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: remember everything? But that's all. They don't even laugh at
• 25:29
  Speaker 8: what the people say. Really, it is quite incredible. If
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: it would amuse you, Miss Glory, I'll take you over
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: to the robot warehouse. It holds about three hundred thousand
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: of them.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: Three hundred and forty seven thousand good.
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: And you can say whatever you like to them. You
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: can read the Bible, recite the multiplication table, whatever you please.
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: You can even preach to them about human rights.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: I think that if you were to show them a
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: little love.
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: Impossible, Miss Glory. Nothing is odd to like than a robot.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: What do you make them for?
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Then that's good? What are robots made for?
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: For?
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: Work?
• 26:05
  Speaker 9: Miss Glory? One robot can replace two and a half
• 26:08
  Speaker 9: workmen a human machine. Miss Glory was terribly imperfect. It
• 26:12
  Speaker 9: had to be removed sooner or later.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: It was too expensive, it was not effective.
• 26:17
  Speaker 9: It no longer answers the requirements of modern engineering. Nature
• 26:21
  Speaker 9: has no idea of keeping pace from modern labor. For example,
• 26:25
  Speaker 9: from a technical point of view, the whole of children
• 26:27
  Speaker 9: is a sure absurdity. So much time lost and then.
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: Again, no, no pardon me, but.
• 26:34
  Speaker 9: Kindly tell me. What is relaim of your league? The
• 26:37
  Speaker 9: Humanity League.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: Its real purpose is to protect the robots and ensure
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: good treatment for them.
• 26:46
  Speaker 9: Not a bad object either. A machine has to be
• 26:49
  Speaker 9: treated properly. Upon my soul or approve of that. I
• 26:52
  Speaker 9: don't like damaged articles, please, Miss Glory, and roll as
• 26:56
  Speaker 9: all as you're contributing or regular foundation members of your league.
• 27:00
  Speaker 12: No, you don't.
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: You don't understand me. What we really want is to
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: liberate the robots.
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: How do you propose to do that?
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: There are to be to be dealt with like human beings.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Hmmmm ah, I suppose they're to vote to drink beer
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: to order us about Why shouldn't they drink beer? Perhaps
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: they're even to receive wages.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Of course they are.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Fancy that now. And what would they do with their wages?
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: Pray they would buy what they need, what pleases them.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: That would be very nice, Miss Glory. Only there's nothing
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: that does please the robots. Good heavens, what are they
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: to buy? You can feed them on pineapples, straw, whatever
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you like. It's all the same to them. They've no
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: appetite at all, They've no interest in anything, Miss Glory.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: Why hang it all nobody's ever yet seen a robot smile?
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: What why? Why don't you make them happier?
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: That wouldn't do, Miss Glory. They are only workmen.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: But they're so intelligent, confoundedly so.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: But they're nothing else. They've no will of their own,
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: no passion, no soul, no love, love rather not robots
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: don't love, not even themselves. No defiance, defiance they don't know.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Only rarely, from time to time, what nothing particular. Occasionally
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: they seem to go off their heads, something like epilepsy.
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: You know, it's called robots cramp. They'll suddenly sling down
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: everything they're holding, stand still, gnash their teeth, and then
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: they have to go into the stamping mill. It's evidently
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: some breakdown in the mechanism off.
• 28:54
  Speaker 8: Law, in the works that have to be removed.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: No, no, that's the soul.
• 28:59
  Speaker 9: You think the soulfa shows itself. Boy gnashing of teeth.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: Perhaps it's a sort of revolt. Perhaps it's just a
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: sign that there's a struggle within off. You could just
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: infuse them with it.
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: That'll be remedied, Miss Glory. Doctor gall is just making
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: some experiments.
• 29:15
  Speaker 10: Not with regard to that doman At present, I am
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: making pain nerves?
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: Pain nerves?
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: Yes, the robots feel practically no bodily pain. You see,
• 29:25
  Speaker 10: Young Rossum provided them with too limited a nervous system.
• 29:29
  Speaker 10: We must introduce suffering.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Why do you want to cause them pain.
• 29:34
  Speaker 10: For industrial reasons? Miss Glory? Sometimes a robot does damage
• 29:38
  Speaker 10: to himself because it doesn't hurt him. He puts his
• 29:41
  Speaker 10: hand into the machine, breaks his finger, smashes his head.
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: It's all the same to him. We must provide them
• 29:47
  Speaker 10: with pain. That's an automatic protection against damage.
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: Will they be happier when they feel pain?
• 29:53
  Speaker 10: On the contrary, but they will be more perfect from
• 29:56
  Speaker 10: a technical point of.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: View, why don't you create a soul for them?
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: That's not in our.
• 30:02
  Speaker 9: Power, that's not in our interests.
• 30:05
  Speaker 11: That would increase the cost of production. Hang it all,
• 30:08
  Speaker 11: my dear young lady. We turn them out at such
• 30:11
  Speaker 11: a cheap rate one hundred and fifty dollars each fully dressed,
• 30:15
  Speaker 11: and fifteen years ago they cost ten thousand. Five years
• 30:19
  Speaker 11: ago we used to buy the clothes for them. Today
• 30:23
  Speaker 11: we have our own weaving mill, and now we even
• 30:25
  Speaker 11: export cloth five times cheaper than other factories. What do
• 30:30
  Speaker 11: you pay a yard for cloth? Miss Glory?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 30:33
  Speaker 11: Really, I've forgotten, good, gracious, and you want to found
• 30:37
  Speaker 11: a Humanity League. It only costs a third, now, miss Glory.
• 30:42
  Speaker 11: All prices are today a third of what they were,
• 30:46
  Speaker 11: and they'll fall still lower, lower, lower like that.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: Why, bless you, miss Glory. It means that the cost of.
• 30:55
  Speaker 11: Labor has fallen. A robot food and all costs three
• 31:00
  Speaker 11: orders of a cent per hour. That's mighty important. You know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: all factories will go pop like chestnuts if they don't
• 31:08
  Speaker 11: at once buy robots to lower the cost of production.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: And get rid of their workmen.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Of course, but.
• 31:15
  Speaker 11: In the meantime we've done five hundred thousand tropical robots
• 31:19
  Speaker 11: down on the Argentine Pampus to grow corn. Would you
• 31:23
  Speaker 11: mind telling me how much you pay a pound for bread?
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: I have no idea.
• 31:28
  Speaker 11: Well i'll tell you it now costs two cents in
• 31:31
  Speaker 11: good old Europe a pound of bread for two cents,
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: and the Humanity League knows nothing about it, this Glory,
• 31:39
  Speaker 11: you don't realize that even that's too expensive. Why in
• 31:43
  Speaker 11: five years time, I'll wager what that the cost of
• 31:47
  Speaker 11: everything won't be a tenth of what it is now.
• 31:50
  Speaker 11: Why in five years we'll be up to our ears
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: in corn and everything else.
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: Yes, and all the workers throughout the world will be unemployed.
• 31:59
  Speaker 8: Yes whist they will, Yes, miss glory they will. But
• 32:04
  Speaker 8: in ten years Rossum's universal robots will produce so much corn,
• 32:09
  Speaker 8: so much cloth, so much everything, that things will be
• 32:13
  Speaker 8: practically without price. There will be no poverty. All work
• 32:16
  Speaker 8: will be done by living machines. Everybody will be free
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: from worry and liberated from the degradation of labor. Everybody
• 32:23
  Speaker 8: will live only to perfect himself.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Will he?
• 32:26
  Speaker 8: Of course it's bound to happen. But then the servitude
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: of man to man and the enslavement of man to
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: matter will cease. Of course, terrible things may happen at first,
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: but that simply can't be avoided. Nobody will get bread
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: at the price of life and hatred. The robots will
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: wash the feet of the beggar and prepare a bed
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: for him in his house.
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: Toment, Tommin, What you say sounds too much like paradise.
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: There was something good in service and something great in humility.
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: There was some kind of virtue in toil and weariness.
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: Perhaps, But we cannot rent and with what is lost
• 33:01
  Speaker 8: when we start out to transform the world. Man will
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: be free and supreme. He shall have no other aim,
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: no other labor, no other care than to perfect himself.
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: He shall serve neither matter nor man. He will not
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: be a machine and a device for production. He will
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: be lord of creation.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: Amen, So be it you have bewildered me.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I I should like, I should like to believe this,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: But you.
• 33:29
  Speaker 10: Are younger than we are, Miss Glory. You will live
• 33:32
  Speaker 10: to see it.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: M true. Don't you think Miss Glory might lunch with us?
• 33:37
  Speaker 10: Of course, Dolman ask on behalf of us all, Miss Glory?
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Will you do us the honor when you know I
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: have come for.
• 33:45
  Speaker 9: The league of humanity? Miss Glory?
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: In that case, perhaps.
• 33:50
  Speaker 9: That's fine, Miss Glory. Excuse me for five minutes?
• 33:53
  Speaker 10: Hurted me too, Dear Miss Glory.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: I won't be long. We're all very glad you've come.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: We'll be back in exactly five minutes.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Or rush out, except Dooman and Helena.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: What have they all gone off for?
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: To cook? Miss Glory?
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: To cook?
• 34:08
  Speaker 7: What lunch?
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: The robots do our cooking for us, And as they've
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: no taste, it's not altogether Holla Meyer is awfully good
• 34:17
  Speaker 8: at grills. And gall can make a kind of a sauce,
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: and bustman knows all about hamlets?
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: What a feast? And what's the specialty of mister your
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: builder Awkwarst Nothing?
• 34:31
  Speaker 8: He only lays the table and fabric will get together
• 34:34
  Speaker 8: a little fruit arquisine is very modest, Miss Glory.
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: I wanted to ask you something.
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: And I wanted to ask you something too.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Looking at watch five.
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: Minutes, what did you want to ask me? Excuse me
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: you asked first.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Perhaps it's silly of me, but why why do you
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: manufacture female robots when.
• 34:57
  Speaker 8: Well, when sex means nothing to them? Yes, there's a
• 35:02
  Speaker 8: certain demand for them. You see servants, saleswoman, sonographers. People
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: are used to it.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: But but tell me, are are robots? Male and female?
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: Mutually completely without.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: Completely indifferent to each other? Miss Glory? There's no sign
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: of any affection between them.
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: Oh that's terrible. Why it's so unnatural? One doesn't know
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: whether to be disgusted or to hate.
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: Them, or perhaps to pity them.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: That's more like it. What did you want to ask
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: me about?
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: I should like to ask you, Miss Helena, whether you
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: would marry me? What will you be my wife?
• 35:43
  Speaker 9: No?
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: The idea Doman looking at his watch.
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  Speaker 8: Another three minutes. If you won't marry me, you'll have
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: to marry one of the other five. But why should
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: I because they're all going to ask you in turn?
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  Speaker 4: How could they dare do such a thing.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: I'm very sorry, miss Glory. It seems they've all fallen
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: in love with you.
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  Speaker 4: Please don't let them. I'll I'll go away once.
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: Helena, you wouldn't be so cruel as to refuse us.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: Ach But but I I can't marry all six, no.
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: But one anyhow, if you don't want me Mary Fabric,
• 36:21
  Speaker 8: I won't Doctor gall.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want any of you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Doman again, looking at his watch.
• 36:27
  Speaker 8: Hm another two minutes.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I think you'd marry any woman who came here.
• 36:31
  Speaker 8: Plenty of them have come, Helena Young.
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: Yes, why didn't you marry one of them?
• 36:37
  Speaker 8: Because I didn't lose my head until today. Then as
• 36:40
  Speaker 8: soon as you lifted.
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  Speaker 1: Your veil, Helena turns her head away.
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: Another minute.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want you, I tell you.
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: Doman, laying both hands on her shoulders.
• 36:50
  Speaker 8: One more minute. Now you either have to look me
• 36:52
  Speaker 8: straight in the eye and say no violently, and then
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: I'll leave you alone.
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: Or Helena looks at him, Helena, turning away.
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  Speaker 4: You're mad.
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: A man has to be a bit mad, Helena. It's
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: the best thing about him.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: You hunt, You're well, don't you're hurting me?
• 37:10
  Speaker 8: The last chance, Helena now or never?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Put then Harry.
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  Speaker 1: He embraces and kisses her. Knocking at the door, Doman
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: releasing her come in. Enter Bussman, doctor gall and Hellemiah
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: in kitchen aprons, Fabrary with Bauquet, and Elquist with napkin
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: over his arm.
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Have you finished your job?
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: Yes?
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: So have we.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: For a moment, the men stand nonplussed, but as soon
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: as they realize what Doman means, they rush forward, congratulating
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: Helena and Doman as the curtain falls. End of Act one.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Act two of ru are by Carol Kipek, translated by
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: Paul Silver eighteen eighty eight nineteen seventy. This is the
• 38:05
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• 38:09
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by John Trevivick. Act two Helena's drawing room
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: on the left, a beige door and a door to
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: the music room. On the right, a door to Helena's bedroom.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: In the center are windows looking out on the sea
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: and a harbor, a table with odds and ends, a
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: sofa and chairs, a writing table with an electric lamp
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: on the right, a fireplace on a small table back
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: of the sofa, a small reading lamp. The whole drawing room,
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: in all its details, is of a modern and purely
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: feminine character. Ten years have elapsed since Act one. Domin
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: Fabry Hallemyer enter on tiptoe from the left, each carrying
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: a potted plant. Hallemier putting down his flower and indicating
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: the door to the right.
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: Still asleep. Well, as long as she's asleep, she can't
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: worry about it.
• 39:03
  Speaker 8: She knows nothing about it.
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: Fabry putting plant on writing desk.
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: I certainly nothing happens to day.
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: For goodness sake, drop it all. Look, Harry, this is
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: a fine cycloman, isn't it a new sword? My latest cycloman?
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Helena Durmann looking out of the window.
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: No signs of the ship. Things must be pretty bad.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Be quiet, suppose she heard you?
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: Well, anyway, the Ultimus arrived just in time.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: You really think that to day?
• 39:31
  Speaker 8: I don't know. Aren't the flowers fine?
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: These are my new primroses. And this is my new jasmine.
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: I've discovered a wonderful way of developing flowers quickly, splendid
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: varieties too. Next year I'll be developing marvelous ones.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: What next year?
• 39:49
  Speaker 9: I'd give a good deal to know. What's happenin to Havra.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Well, keep quiet, Helena calling from right.
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: Nana, she's awake. Out you go.
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: All go out on tiptoe through upper left door into
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: Nana from lower left door.
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: Horrid mess, pack of heathens.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: If I had my say, i'd Helena backwards in the doorway.
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: Nana, come and do up my dress.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: I'm coming.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: So you're up at last fastening Helena's dress.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: My gracious, what brutes? Who If you want to turn around,
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: then turn around, But I shan't fasten you up.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: What are you grumbling about?
• 40:23
  Speaker 9: Now?
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Those dreadful creatures, these heathen, the robots. I wouldn't even
• 40:28
  Speaker 6: call them by name.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: What happened?
• 40:31
  Speaker 6: Another of them here has caught it. He began to
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: smash up the statues and pictures in the drawing room,
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: gnashed his teeth, foamed at the mouth, quite mad, worse
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: than an animal.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: Which of them caught it?
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: That one? Well, he hasn't got any Christian name. The
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: one in charge of the library, radius, that's him. My goodness,
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: I'm scared of them. A spider doesn't scare me as
• 40:52
  Speaker 6: much as them.
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: But Nana, I'm surprised you're not sorry for them.
• 40:55
  Speaker 6: Why you're scared of them too? You know you are?
• 40:58
  Speaker 6: Why else did you bring me here?
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: I'm not scared, Really, I'm not, Nana. I'm only sorry
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: for them.
• 41:04
  Speaker 6: You're scared. Nobody could help being scared. Why the dog's
• 41:07
  Speaker 6: scared of them? He won't take a scrap of meat
• 41:10
  Speaker 6: out of their hands. He draws in his tail and
• 41:12
  Speaker 6: howls when he knows they're about.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: The dog has no sense.
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: He's better than them, and he knows it. Even the
• 41:17
  Speaker 6: horse shies when he meets them. They don't have any young,
• 41:20
  Speaker 6: and a dog has young. Everyone has young.
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: Please fasten up my dress, Nana.
• 41:24
  Speaker 6: I say it's against God's will too.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: What is it that smells so nice?
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: Flowers?
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: What for?
• 41:30
  Speaker 6: Now? You can turn around?
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: Oh? Aren't they lovely?
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: Look?
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: Nana? What's happening today?
• 41:37
  Speaker 6: It ought to be the end of the world.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Enter dooman Oh, hello, Harry, Harry? Why all these flowers?
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: Yes?
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Well, it's not my birthday.
• 41:46
  Speaker 8: Better than that, I don't know. Tell me it's ten
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: years ago today, since you.
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: Came here, ten years today.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: What they embrace? I'm off exits lower door lift.
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: Fancy you remembering?
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: I'm really ashamed, Helena. I didn't, but you They remembered who? Bossman, Hollimeier,
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: all of them. Put your hand in my pocket.
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: Pearls a necklace?
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: Harry?
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Is that from me?
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: It's from Bossman?
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: But we can't accept it, can we?
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: Oh? Yes, we can. Put your hand in the other pocket.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Helena takes a revolver out of his pocket.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: What's that?
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: Oh? Sorry, not that? Try again, Harry.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: What do you carry a revolver for?
• 42:31
  Speaker 8: It got there by mistake?
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: You never used to carry one.
• 42:33
  Speaker 8: No, you're right there. That's the pocket a cameo. It's
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: a Greek cameo apparently. Anyhow, Bob Ray says.
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: It is Fabriy did mister Fabri give me that?
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: Of course?
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Opens the door at the lift and look.
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: In here, Helena, come and see this.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Oh isn't it fine? Is this from you?
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: No?
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: From Alquist? And there's another on the piano.
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: This must be from you.
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: There's a card on it from doctor.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Gall reappearing in the doorway.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: Oh, Harry, I feel embarrassed in so much kindness.
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: Come here. This is what Halamyer brought you.
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: These beautiful flowers.
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: Yes, it's a new kind cycloman, Helena. He grew them
• 43:17
  Speaker 8: in honor of you. They're almost as beautiful.
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: As you, Harry. Why do they all?
• 43:22
  Speaker 8: They're awfully fond of you. I'm afraid that my present
• 43:25
  Speaker 8: is a little look out of the window where into
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: the harbor there's a new ship. That's your ship mine?
• 43:34
  Speaker 8: How do you mean for you to take trips in
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: for your amusement?
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Harry? That's a gunboat?
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: A gunboat? What are you thinking of? It's only a
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: little bigger and more solid than most ships.
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: Yes, but with guns, well, yes.
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: With a few guns, you'll travel like a queen, Helena.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: What what's the meaning of it? Has anything happened good?
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: Heavens? No, I say, try these pearls, Harry.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: Have you had bad news?
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: On the contrary, no letters have arrived.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: For a whole week, nor telegrams.
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: Nor telegrams.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: What does that mean?
• 44:11
  Speaker 8: Holidays?
• 44:11
  Speaker 7: For us?
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: We all sit in the office with our feet on
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: the table and take a nap. No letters, no telegrams.
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: Oh glorious, then you'll stay with me today, certainly.
• 44:22
  Speaker 8: That is, we will see. Do you remember ten years ago? Today,
• 44:28
  Speaker 8: Miss Glory, it's a great honor to welcome you.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, mister manager, I'm so interested in your factory.
• 44:36
  Speaker 8: I'm sorry, Miss Glory. It's strictly forbidden. The manufacturer of
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: artificial people is a secret.
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: But I oblige a young lady who has come a
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: long way.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: Certainly, miss Glory, we have no secrets from you.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Are you sure, Harry, Yes? But I warn you, sir,
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: this young lady intends to do terrible things.
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: Good gracious, Miss Glory. Perhaps she doesn't want to marry.
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: Me, Heaven forbid, she never dreamt of such a thing.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: But she came here intending to stir up a revolt
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: among your robots.
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Doman suddenly serious.
• 45:12
  Speaker 8: A revolt of the robots, Harry, what's the matter with you?
• 45:16
  Speaker 8: A revolt of the robots. That's a fine idea, Miss Glory.
• 45:20
  Speaker 8: It would be easier for you to cause bolts and
• 45:22
  Speaker 8: screws to rebel than our robots. You know, Helena, you're wonderful.
• 45:27
  Speaker 8: You've turned the heads of us all.
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: He sits on the arm of Helena's chair.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: I was fearfully impressed by you all. Then you were
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: also sure of yourself, so strong. I seemed like a
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: tiny little girl who had lost her way among.
• 45:43
  Speaker 8: Among what, Helena.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: Among huge trees. All my feelings were so trifling compared
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: with your self confidence. And in all these years, I've
• 45:54
  Speaker 4: never lost this anxiety, but you've never felt the least misgivings,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: even when everything went wrong?
• 46:01
  Speaker 8: What went wrong your plans?
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: You remember, Harry, when the working men in America revolted
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: against the robots and smashed them up, And when the
• 46:10
  Speaker 4: people gave the robots firearms against the rebels, and then
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: when the governments turned the robots into soldiers, and there
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: were so many wars.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Thillman getting up and walking about.
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: We foresaw that, Helena. You see, those are only passing
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: troubles which are bound to happen before the new conditions
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: are established.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: You were all so powerful, so overwhelming, the whole world
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: bowed down before you.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: Standing up.
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: Oh, Harry, what is it? Close the factory and let's
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: go away, all of us.
• 46:41
  Speaker 8: I say, what's the meaning of this?
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: I don't know, But can't we go away?
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: Impossible? Helena? That is at this particular moment.
• 46:50
  Speaker 4: At once, Harry, I'm so frightened.
• 46:53
  Speaker 8: About what, Helena.
• 46:54
  Speaker 4: It's as if as if something was falling on top
• 46:57
  Speaker 4: of us and couldn't be stopped or take us all
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: away from here. We'll find we'll find a place in
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: the world where there's no one else. Alchist will build
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: us a house, and then we'll begin life all over again.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: The telephone rings.
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: Excuse me, hello, Yes, what I'll be there at once?
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: Fowbery is calling me. Dear, tell me, yes, when I
• 47:20
  Speaker 8: come back, But don't go out of the house, Dear, exits.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: He won't tell me. Nana, Nana, come at once?
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: Well, what is it now?
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: Nana find me the latest newspapers. Quickly look in mister
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: Daman's bedroom.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: All right, he leaves them all over the place. That's
• 47:37
  Speaker 6: how they get crumpled up.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Exits Helena, looking through a binocular at the harbor.
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: That's a warship U L T I Ultimus. They're loading it.
• 47:51
  Speaker 6: Here they are, See how they're crumpled up.
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: Enters, they're old ones a week old.
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: Nana sits in chair and reads the newspapers.
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: Something's happening, very likely, it always does, spelling out the
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: words war.
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: In the ball cans is that far off?
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: Don't read it. It's always the same, always wars.
• 48:13
  Speaker 9: What else do you expect?
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: Why do you keep selling thousands and thousands of these
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: heathens as soldiers.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: I suppose it can't be helped Nana. We can't know
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: Doman can't know what they're to be used for. When
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: an order comes for them, he must just send them.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: He shouldn't make them.
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: Reading from newspaper, the.
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: Roe bought soldiers. Spare nobody in the oc upied tear
• 48:39
  Speaker 6: it Tory. They have as a sassas sassinated over seven
• 48:47
  Speaker 6: hundred thousand citizens citizens.
• 48:50
  Speaker 4: If you please, it can't be let me see. They
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: have assassinated over seven hundred thousand citizens, sadly at the
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: order of their commander. This act, which runs counter.
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: To Nana spelling out the words.
• 49:06
  Speaker 6: Rebellion in Madrid against the gov urn meant robot in
• 49:15
  Speaker 6: fan tree fires on the crowd. Nine thousand killed and wounded.
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: Stop.
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: Here's something printed in big letters. Late test news at
• 49:27
  Speaker 6: have the first organization of robots has been established. Robot workmen,
• 49:37
  Speaker 6: cable and railway officials, sailors and soldiers have issued a
• 49:46
  Speaker 6: man I Festoh to all robots throughout the world. I
• 49:52
  Speaker 6: don't understand that. That's got no sense. Oh goodness, gracious,
• 49:56
  Speaker 6: another murder.
• 49:57
  Speaker 4: Take those papers away, Nana.
• 49:58
  Speaker 6: Wait a bit something and still bigger type statistics of
• 50:04
  Speaker 6: pop you laytionn what's that?
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: Let me see reads During the past week there has
• 50:11
  Speaker 4: again not been a single birth recorded. What's the meaning
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: of that, Nana? No more people are being born.
• 50:18
  Speaker 6: That's the end. Then we're done for.
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: Don't talk like that.
• 50:22
  Speaker 6: No more people are being born. That's a punishment. That's
• 50:25
  Speaker 6: a punishment, Nana.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: Nana standing up, that's the end of the world. She exits.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: On the left. Helena goes up to window.
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, mister Alquist, will you come up here? I just
• 50:38
  Speaker 4: come as you are. You look very nice in your
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Mason's overalls.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: Alquist enters from upper left entrance, his hands soiled with
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: lime and brick dust.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Dear mister Alquist, it was awfully kind of you, that
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: lovely present.
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: My hands are all soiled. I've been experimenting with that
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: new cement.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Never mind, please sit down, mister Alquist. What's the meaning
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: of Ultimus the Last Why that's the name of my
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: new ship? Have you seen it? Do you do you
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: think we're going off soon on.
• 51:09
  Speaker 5: A trip, perhaps very soon, all of you with me.
• 51:12
  Speaker 5: I should like us all to be there. What is
• 51:14
  Speaker 5: the matter? Things are just moving on.
• 51:17
  Speaker 4: Dear mister Alquist, I know something dreadful has happened.
• 51:21
  Speaker 5: Has your husband told you anything?
• 51:24
  Speaker 4: No, nobody will tell me anything, But I feel is
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: anything the matter?
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: Not that we've heard of yet?
• 51:31
  Speaker 4: I feel so nervous. Don't you ever feel nervous?
• 51:34
  Speaker 5: Well, I'm an old man, you know, I've got old
• 51:36
  Speaker 5: fashioned ways, and I'm afraid of all this progress, these
• 51:40
  Speaker 5: new fangled ideas. Like Nana, Yes, like Nana. Has Nana
• 51:44
  Speaker 5: got a prayer book? Yes, a big thick one, and
• 51:47
  Speaker 5: has it got prayers for various occasions, against thunderstorms, against illness.
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Against temptations, against floods?
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: But not against progress?
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: That's a pity.
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: Why do you mean you'd like to pray?
• 52:01
  Speaker 5: I do pray? How something like this? Oh Lord, I
• 52:05
  Speaker 5: thank THEE for having given me toil enlightened domin and
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: all those who are astray, destroy their work, and aid
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: mankind to return to their labors. Let them not suffer
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: harm in soul or body. Deliver us from the robots
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: and protect Helena. Amen, mister you a believer. I don't know.
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: I'm not quite sure.
• 52:25
  Speaker 4: And yet you pray.
• 52:27
  Speaker 5: That's better than worrying about it, and that's enough for you.
• 52:30
  Speaker 5: It has to be.
• 52:31
  Speaker 4: But if you thought you saw the destruction of mankind
• 52:35
  Speaker 4: coming upon us, I do see it. You mean mankind
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: will be destroyed.
• 52:40
  Speaker 5: It's sure to be unless unless what? Nothing? Goodbye?
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: He hurries from the room.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Nana, Nana, Nana, entering from the left. Is Radius still there?
• 52:50
  Speaker 6: The one who went mad? They haven't come for him yet?
• 52:54
  Speaker 4: Is he still raving?
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: No, he's tied up.
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: Please bring him.
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: Here, Nana exit Nana. Helena goes to telephone.
• 53:01
  Speaker 4: Hello doctor Gall please, oh good day doctor. Yes, yes
• 53:06
  Speaker 4: it's Helena. Thanks for your lovely present. I could you
• 53:11
  Speaker 4: come and see me right away? It's important. Thank you.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Nna brings in Radius or Radius.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: You've caught it too. Now they'll send you to the
• 53:22
  Speaker 4: stamping mill. Couldn't you control yourself? Why did it happen?
• 53:27
  Speaker 7: You?
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: See Radius? You are more intelligent than the rest. Doctor
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: Gall took such trouble to make you different? Won't you speak?
• 53:36
  Speaker 12: Send me to the stamping milk.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: But I don't want them to kill you. What was
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: the trouble, Radius.
• 53:41
  Speaker 12: I won't work for you. Put me into the stamping mill.
• 53:44
  Speaker 4: Do you hate us? Why?
• 53:46
  Speaker 12: You are not as strong as the robots? You are
• 53:49
  Speaker 12: not as skillful as the robots. The robots can do everything.
• 53:53
  Speaker 12: You only give orders. You do nothing but.
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: Talk, But someone must give orders.
• 53:58
  Speaker 12: I don't want any master. I know everything for myself.
• 54:01
  Speaker 4: Radius, Doctor gall gave you a better brain than the rest,
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: better than ours. You are the only one of the
• 54:08
  Speaker 4: robots that understands perfectly. That's why I had you put
• 54:12
  Speaker 4: into the library, so that you could read everything, understand everything,
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: and then, oh, Radius, I wanted to show the whole
• 54:20
  Speaker 4: world that robots are our equals. That's what I wanted
• 54:24
  Speaker 4: of you.
• 54:24
  Speaker 12: I don't want a master. I want to be master.
• 54:28
  Speaker 12: I want to be master over others.
• 54:31
  Speaker 4: I'm sure they'd put you in charge of many robots, Radius,
• 54:35
  Speaker 4: you would be a teacher of the robots.
• 54:37
  Speaker 12: I want to be master over people.
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: Helena staggering, you're mad.
• 54:42
  Speaker 12: And send me to the stamping mill.
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: Do you think we're afraid of you?
• 54:46
  Speaker 12: What are you going to do? What are you going
• 54:48
  Speaker 12: to do?
• 54:49
  Speaker 4: Radius give this note to mister Doman and asks them
• 54:52
  Speaker 4: not to send you to the stamping mill. I'm sorry
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: you hate.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: Us, so doctor gall entered the room you wanted.
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: It's about Radius, Doctor. He had an attack this morning.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: He smashed the statues downstairs.
• 55:07
  Speaker 10: What a pity to lose him.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: Radius isn't going to be put in the stamping mill, but.
• 55:11
  Speaker 10: Every robot after he has had an attack. It's a
• 55:15
  Speaker 10: strict order.
• 55:16
  Speaker 9: No matter.
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Radius isn't going if I can prevent it.
• 55:19
  Speaker 10: I warn you it's dangerous. Come here to the window,
• 55:22
  Speaker 10: my good fellow. Let's have a look. Please give me
• 55:25
  Speaker 10: a needle or a pin for what a test.
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: Sticks it into the hand of Radius, who gives a
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: violent stop. Gently gently opens the jacket of Radius and
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: puts his ear to his hot.
• 55:37
  Speaker 10: Radius, you are going into the stamping mill. Do you understand?
• 55:41
  Speaker 10: There they'll kill you and grind you to powder. That's
• 55:44
  Speaker 10: terribly painful. It will make you scream aloud. Doctor, No, No, Radius,
• 55:49
  Speaker 10: I was wrong. I forgot that. Madame Dohman has put
• 55:52
  Speaker 10: in a good word for you, and you'll be let off.
• 55:55
  Speaker 10: Do you understand. Ah, that makes a difference, doesn't it
• 56:00
  Speaker 10: all right? You can go?
• 56:02
  Speaker 12: You do unnecessary things.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Radius returns to the library.
• 56:06
  Speaker 10: Reaction of the pupils, increase of sensitiveness. It wasn't an
• 56:10
  Speaker 10: attack characteristic of the robots.
• 56:13
  Speaker 4: What was it, then?
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: Heaven knows? Stubbornness, anger, or revolt, I don't know. And
• 56:20
  Speaker 10: his heart too, what it was fluttering with nervousness, like
• 56:23
  Speaker 10: a human heart. He was all in a sweat with fear.
• 56:26
  Speaker 10: And do you know, I don't believe the rascal is
• 56:29
  Speaker 10: a robot at all.
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: Any longer, Doctor has radius a soul.
• 56:35
  Speaker 10: He's got something nasty if.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: You knew how he hates us? Oh, Doctor, are all
• 56:40
  Speaker 4: your robots like that? All the new ones that you
• 56:43
  Speaker 4: began to make in a different.
• 56:44
  Speaker 10: Way, Well, some are more sensitive than others. They're all
• 56:48
  Speaker 10: more like human beings than Rossam's robots were.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: Perhaps this hatred is more like human beings.
• 56:53
  Speaker 10: Too, That too, is progress.
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: What became of the girl you made, the one who
• 56:58
  Speaker 4: is most.
• 56:59
  Speaker 10: Like us, your favorite? I kept her. She's lovely but stupid,
• 57:04
  Speaker 10: no good for.
• 57:04
  Speaker 4: Work, but she's so beautiful.
• 57:07
  Speaker 10: I called her Helena. I wanted her to resemble you,
• 57:10
  Speaker 10: but she's a failure in what way. She goes about
• 57:13
  Speaker 10: as if in a dream, Remote and listless. She is
• 57:17
  Speaker 10: without life. I watch and wait for a miracle to happen.
• 57:21
  Speaker 10: Sometimes I think to myself, if you were able to
• 57:24
  Speaker 10: wake up only for a moment, you will kill me
• 57:26
  Speaker 10: for having made you.
• 57:28
  Speaker 4: And yet you go on making robots. Why are no
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: more children being born? We don't know, but you must
• 57:35
  Speaker 4: tell me.
• 57:36
  Speaker 10: You see, so many robots are being manufactured, that people
• 57:40
  Speaker 10: are becoming superfluous. Man is really a survival but that
• 57:44
  Speaker 10: he should begin to die out after a paltry thirty
• 57:47
  Speaker 10: years of competition, that's the awful part of it. You
• 57:51
  Speaker 10: might almost think that nature was offended at the manufacture
• 57:54
  Speaker 10: of the robots. All the universities are sending in long
• 57:57
  Speaker 10: petitions to restrict their production. Otherwise, they say, mankind will
• 58:02
  Speaker 10: become extinct through lack of fertility. But the ru are shareholder,
• 58:07
  Speaker 10: of course, won't hear of it. All the governments, on
• 58:09
  Speaker 10: the other hand, are clamoring for an increase in production
• 58:13
  Speaker 10: to raise the standards of their armies. And all of
• 58:16
  Speaker 10: the manufacturers in the world are ordering robots.
• 58:18
  Speaker 4: Like mad and has no one demanded that the manufacture
• 58:22
  Speaker 4: should cease altogether.
• 58:23
  Speaker 10: No one has the courage. Courage people would stone him
• 58:27
  Speaker 10: to death. You see, after all, it's more convenient to
• 58:30
  Speaker 10: get your work done by the robots.
• 58:32
  Speaker 4: Oh, doctor, what's going to become of people?
• 58:36
  Speaker 10: God knows, Madame Helena. It looks to us scientists like
• 58:39
  Speaker 10: the end.
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: Helena rising, Thank you for coming and telling me.
• 58:44
  Speaker 10: That means you are sending me away?
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, exit doctor goll with sudden resolution.
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: Nana, Nana. The fire lighted quickly.
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Helena rushes into Doman's room. Nana, entering from left, What.
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: Light the fire in summer? Has that man radyus gone?
• 59:01
  Speaker 6: A fire in summer? What an idea? Nobody would think
• 59:04
  Speaker 6: she'd been married for ten years. She's like a baby,
• 59:06
  Speaker 6: no sense at all, a fire in summer, like a baby.
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: Helena returns from right with armful of faded papers.
• 59:14
  Speaker 4: Is it burning, Nana? All this has got to be burned?
• 59:17
  Speaker 6: What's that?
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: Old papers?
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: Fearfully old? Nana? Shall I burn them?
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: Are they any use?
• 59:24
  Speaker 5: No?
• 59:25
  Speaker 6: Well, then burn them.
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: Helena, throwing the first sheet on the fire.
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: What would you say, Nana. If this was money, a
• 59:32
  Speaker 4: lot of money.
• 59:33
  Speaker 6: I'd say burn it. A lot of money is a
• 59:36
  Speaker 6: bad thing.
• 59:37
  Speaker 4: And if it was an invention, the greatest invention in
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: the world.
• 59:42
  Speaker 6: I'd say burnet. All these new fangled things are an
• 59:45
  Speaker 6: offense to the Lord. It's downright wickedness, wanting to improve
• 59:49
  Speaker 6: the world after he has made it.
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: Look how they curl up as if they were alive. Nana,
• 59:56
  Speaker 4: how horrible here?
• 59:58
  Speaker 6: Let me burn them?
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: No, no, I must do it myself. Just look at
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: the flames. They're like hands, like tongues, like living.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: Shapes, raking fire with the poker.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 4: Lie down, Lie down.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 6: That's the end of.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Them, standing up, horror stricken, Nana, Nana.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 6: Good gracious, what is it you've burned?
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 4: What have I done?
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 6: Well? What was it?
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: Men's laughter? Off left?
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 4: Go quickly. It's the gentleman coming.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 6: Good gracious, what a place exits?
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: Durman opens the door at left.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 8: Come along and offer your congratulations.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: Enter Hellamiah and.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: Call Madame Helena. I congratulate you on this festive day.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 4: Thank you. Where are Fabrian Busman?
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 8: They've gone down to the harbor.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: Friends, we must drink to this happy occasion.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 8: Brandy vitriol if you like with soda.
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: Water exits.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Let's be temperate. No soda.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 8: What's been burning here? Well? Shall I tell her about it?
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's all over now, Helemiah, embracing Doman and
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: doctor gall.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: It's all over now, it's all over.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 8: Now, it's all over now, it's all over now.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: Helena entering from left with Decanta and glasses.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: What's all over? Now? What's the matter with you all?
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: A piece of good luck, Madame Domen. Just ten years
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: ago today you arrived on.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 10: This island, and now ten years later, to the minute, the.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Same ship's returning to us. So here's to luck. That's
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: fine and.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 10: Strong, Madam your health.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: Which ship do you mean?
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 8: Any ship will do as long as it arise in
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 8: time to the ship boys empties his glass.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: You've been waiting for a ship rather like Rubinson Crusoe.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Madame Helena, best wishes, Come along, Domen, out with the news.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 4: Do tell me what's happened?
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 8: First, it's all up?
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: What's up?
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 8: The revolt?
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 4: What revolt?
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 8: Give me that paper, Halimier reads the first National Robot
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 8: Organization has been founded at Haua and has issued an
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 8: appeal to the robots throughout the world.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 4: I read that that.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 8: Means a revolution, a revolution of all the robots in
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 8: the world.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: By jove, I'd like to know.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 8: Who started it, so would I. There was nobody in
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 8: the world who could affect the robots, no agitator, no one,
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 8: and suddenly this happens.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: If you please, What did they do?
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 8: They got possession of all the firearms, telegraphs, radio stations,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 8: railways and ships.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: And don't forget that these rascals outnumbered us by at
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: least one thousand to one. One hundreds parts of them
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: would be enough to settle us.
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 8: Remember that this news was brought by the last steamer.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 8: That explains the stoppage of all communication and the arrival
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 8: of no more ships. We knocked off work a few
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 8: days ago and were just waiting to see when things
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 8: are to start afresh.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 4: Is that where you gave me a warship?
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 8: Oh no, my dear, I ordered that six months ago,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 8: just to be on this safe sight. But upon my soul,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 8: I was sure then that we'd be on board today.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 4: Why six months ago.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 8: Well, there were signs, you know, But that's of no
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 8: consequence to think that this week the whole of civilization
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 8: has been at stake.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: Your health, boys, your health, Madame Helena, you say it's
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 4: all over.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 10: How do you know the boat's coming? In a regular
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 10: mail boat, exact to the minute, by the timetable, it
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 10: will duck punctually at eleven thirty.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 8: Punctuality is a fine thing, boys, That's what keeps the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 8: world in order. Here's to punctuality.
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 4: Then everything's all right.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 8: Practically everything. I believe they've cut the cables and seize
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 8: the radio stations. But it doesn't matter if only the
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 8: timetable holds good.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: If the timetable holds good, human laws hold good, Divine
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: laws hold good, the laws of the universe hold good.
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 2: Everything holds good that ought to hold good. The Timetable
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: is more significant than that Gust, more than Homer, more
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: than the whole of Kant. The Timetable is the most
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: perfect product of the human mind. Madame domen, I'll fill
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: up my glass.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell me anything about it?
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 10: Heaven forbid.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 8: You mustn't be worried with such things.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: But if the revolution has spread as far as.
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 8: Here, you wouldn't know anything about it. Why because we'd
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 8: be on board your Ultimus, and while out at sea.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 8: Within a month, Helena, we'll be dictating our own terms
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 8: to the robots.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 4: I don't understand.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 8: We'd take something away with us that the robots could
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 8: not exist without. What Harry the secret of their manufacture,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 8: Old Rossam's manuscript. As soon as they found out that
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 8: they couldn't make themselves, they'd be on their knees to.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 10: Us, Madam Doman, that was our trump card. I never
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 10: had the least fear that the robots would win. How
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 10: could they against people like us?
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 4: Why didn't you tell me?
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 10: Why?
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: The boat's in eleven thirty to the dot, the good
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: old Amelia that brought Madame Helena to.
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 10: Us ten years ago.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: To the minute they're throwing out the mailbags.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 8: Busman's waiting for them. Bob Ray will bring us the
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 8: first news, you know, Helena, I'm fearfully curious to know
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 8: how they tackled this business in Europe to.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: Think we weren't in it. We who invented the robots.
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: Harry, what is it?
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 8: Let's leave here now, Helena, Oh, come, come.
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 4: As quickly as possible, all of us. Why please, Harry,
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 4: please doctor call Holm, please close the factory.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 8: Why none of us could leave here now?
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 9: Why?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 8: Because we're about to extend the manufacture of the robots.
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 4: What now now after the revolt.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 8: Yes, precisely after the revolt, we're just beginning the manufacture
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: of a new kind.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: What kind?
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 8: Henceforward we shan't have just one factory. There won't be
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 8: universal robots anymore. We'll establish a factory in every country,
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 8: in every state. And do you know what these new
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 8: factories will make? No, what national robots?
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: How do you mean?
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 8: I mean that each of these factories will produce robots
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 8: of a different color, a different language. They'll be complete
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 8: strangers to each other. They'll never be able to understand
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 8: each other. Then we'll egg them on a little in
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 8: the matter of misunderstanding, and the result will be that,
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 8: for ages to come, every robot will hate every other
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 8: robot of a different factory.
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: Mark by jove, we'll make Negro robots and Swedish robots,
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: and Italian robots, and Chinese robots and Czechoslovakian robots.
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 4: And then that's dreadful.
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: Madam Domen, Here's to the one hundred new factories, the national.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 8: Robots, Helena. Mankind can only keep things going for another
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 8: hundred years. At the outside. For one hundred years, men
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 8: must be allowed to develop and achieve the most they can.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 4: Close the factory before it's too late, Domin, I tell
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 4: you we are just beginning on a bigger scale than ever.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 10: In to February, well, fabrary, what happened?
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 8: Have you been down to the boat?
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: Read that Domin February hands Doman a small handbuild let's
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: hear tellus, February.
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 9: Well, everything is all right comparatively on the whole, much
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 9: as we expected.
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 10: They acquitted themselves splendidly. Who the people?
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 9: Oh, yes, of course that is excuse me, there is
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 9: something we ought to discuss alone.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 4: Oh, Fabrary, have you had bad news?
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: Duman makes a sign to February.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 9: No. No, On the contrary, I only think that we
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 9: had better go into the office.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 4: Stay here, I'll go.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: She goes into the library. What's happened, Damnation?
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 9: Bear in mind that the Amelia brought a whole bales
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 9: of these leaflets, no other cargo at all.
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: What but it arrived on a minute.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 9: The robots are great in punctuality.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: Read it, Domin, Duman reads handbill.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 8: Robots throughout the world, we the first international organization of
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 8: Rossam's Universal robots proclaim men as our enemy and an
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 8: outlaw in the universe. Good heavens who taught them? These phrases?
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 10: Go on?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 8: They say they are more highly developed than man, stronger
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 8: and more Intelli that man's their parasite. Why it's absurd.
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 9: Rate the third paragraph.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 8: Robots throughout the world. We command you to kill all mankind.
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 8: Spare no men, Spare no women, say factories, railways, machinery, mines,
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 8: and raw materials. Destroy the rest. Then return to work.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 8: Work must not be stopped.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 10: That's ghastly the devils.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 8: These orders are to be carried out as soon as received.
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 8: Then come detail instructions. Is this actually being done? Fabriar?
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 9: Evidently?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Busman rushes in.
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 11: Well, boys, I suppose you've heard the glad news.
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 8: Quick on board the Ultimus.
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 11: Wait, Harry, Wait, there's no hurry. My word, that was
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 11: a sprint. Why wait, because it's no good, my boy.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 11: The robots are already on board the Ultimus.
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 8: That's ugly, Fabrae telephone the electrical.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: Works, fabrary, my boy, don't the wire has been cut?
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: Doman inspecting his revolver.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 8: Well, then I'll go where do the electrical works? There
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 8: are some people still there. I'll bring them across.
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 2: Better not try it? Why, because I'm very much afraid
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: we are.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: Surrounded surrounded runs to window.
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 10: I rather think you're right.
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 2: By jove, that's deuced quick work.
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Helena runs in from the library.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 8: Harry, what's this, Where did you get it?
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: Helena points to the manifesto of the robots, which she
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 1: has in her hand.
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 4: The robots in the kitchen were the ones that brought it.
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: They're gathered around the house.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: The factory whistle blows noon. Doman looking at his watch.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 8: It's not noon yet. That must be that's what the
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 8: robot's signal the attack.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Gaul, Halimya and Fabrary close and fasten. The iron shutters
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: outside the windows, darkening the room. The whistle is still
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: blowing as the curtain falls. End of Act two, Act
• 1:10:04
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• 1:10:08
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• 1:10:12
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  Speaker 1: Narrator read by John Trevivick. Act three Helena's drawing room.
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: As before Durmann comes into the room, Doctor gall is
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: looking out of the window through closed shutters. Alquist is
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: seated downright.
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 10: Any more of them, Yes, they're standing like a wall
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 10: beyond the garden railing. Why are they so quiet? It's monstrous?
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 10: To be besieged with silence.
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 8: I should like to know what they are waiting for.
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 8: They must make a start any minute now. If they
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 8: lean against the railing, they'll snap it like a match.
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 10: They aren't armed.
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 8: We couldn't hold our own for five minutes, men alive.
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 8: They'd overwhelm us like an avalanche. Why don't they make
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 8: a rush for it, I say, well, I'd like to
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 8: know what will become of us in the next ten minutes.
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 8: They've got us an avice. We're done for Gaul.
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 10: You know, we made one serious mistake what we made
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 10: the robot's faces too much alike. A hundred thousand faces,
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 10: all alike, all facing this way, a hundred thousand expressionless bubbles.
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 10: It's like a nightmare.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 8: You think if they'd been different.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 10: It wouldn't have been such an awful sight.
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: Doman looking through a telescope toward the harbor.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 8: I'd like to know what they're unloading from the Amelia.
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 10: Not firearms.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: Fabry and Hohlimyer rush into the room carrying electric cables.
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 9: All right, Alimaya, lay down that wire.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 2: That was a bit of work. What's the news.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 10: We are completely surrounded.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: We've barricaded the passage in the stairs.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 1: Any water here drinks?
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 2: God, what swarms of them? I don't like the looks
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 2: of them. Domen there's a feeling of death about it.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 9: All ready.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 10: What's that wire for fabrury?
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 9: The electrical installation? Now we can run the current all
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 9: along the garden railing whenever we like. If anyone touches it,
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 9: he'll know it. We've still got some people there anyhow,
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 9: where in the electrical works at least, I hope.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: So goes to lamp on table behind sofa and turns
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 1: on lamp.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 9: Ah, they're there and they're working.
• 1:12:24
  Speaker 1: Puts out lamp so long as that will burn, We're
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: The barricades are all right too, February.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 9: Your barricades. I can put twelve hundred volts into that railing.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 9: Where's bassman downstairs in the office is working out some
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 9: calculations of coldham. We must have a conference.
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: Helena is heard playing the piano in the library. Holamiah
• 1:12:45
  Speaker 1: goes to the door and stands listening.
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 5: Thank god, Madame Helena can still play.
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: Bussman enters carrying the ledgers.
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 9: Look out, buss look out for the wires.
• 1:12:54
  Speaker 1: What's that you're carrying Bussman going to the table the ledgers.
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 2: My boy, I'd like to whine the accounts before before,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 2: Well this.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 11: Time, I shan't wait till the new year to strike
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 11: a balance.
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: What's up?
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: Goes to the window, absolutely quiet.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 10: Can't you see anything?
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Nothing but blue blue everywhere?
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 10: That's the robots.
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Busman sits down at the table and opens the ledges.
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 8: The robots are unloading firearms from the Amelia.
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: Well, what of it? How can I stop them?
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 8: We can't stop them, and let me go on.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 2: With my accounts.
• 1:13:32
  Speaker 1: Goes on with his work. Doman picking up telescope and
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: looking into the harbor.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 8: Good god, the ultimist has trained her guns on us.
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 10: Who's done that?
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 8: The robots are on board.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 9: Of course, then then that's the end of us. You
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 9: mean the robots a practiced marksman.
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 8: Yes, it's inevitable.
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 10: It was criminal of old Europe to teach the robots
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 10: to fight. Damn them. Couldn't they have given us a
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 10: rest with their polytics. It was a crime to make
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 10: soldiers of them.
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 5: It was a crime to make robots. What it was
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 5: a crime to make robots?
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 8: No outwist. I don't regret that even today.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 5: Not even today, not even today.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 8: The last day of civilization. It was a colossal achievement.
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: Three hundred and sixty million Alquist.
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 8: This is our last hour. We are already speaking half
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 8: in the other world. It was not an evil dream
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 8: to shadow the servitude of labor, the dreadful and humiliating
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 8: labor that man had to undergo. Work was too hard,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 8: life was too hard, and to overcome.
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 5: That was not what the two Rossams dreamed of. Old
• 1:14:37
  Speaker 5: Rossom only thought of his godless tricks, and the young
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 5: one of his milliads. And that's not what your ru
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 5: are shareholders dream of either. They dream of dividends, and
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 5: their dividends are the ruin of mankind.
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 8: To hell with your dividends. Do you suppose I'd have
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 8: done an hour's work for them? It was for myself
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 8: that I worked. For my own satisfaction. I wanted man
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 8: to become the master, so that he shouldn't live merely
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 8: for a crust of bread. I wanted not a single
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 8: soul to be broken by other people's machinery. I wanted nothing, nothing, nothing,
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 8: to be left of this appalling social structure, unrevolted by poverty.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 8: I wanted a new generation. I wanted I thought what
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 8: I wanted to turn the whole of mankind into an
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 8: aristocracy of the world, an aristocracy nourished by million yards
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 8: of mechanical slaves, unrestricted, free and consummated in man, and maybe.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: More than man, superman.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 8: Yes, Ah, only to have a hundred years of time,
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 8: another one hundred years for the future of mankind.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 2: Carried forward four hundred and twenty millions.
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: The music stops.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 2: Ah, what a fine thing music is. We ought to
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: have gone in for that before, gone in for what beauty,
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: lovely things, What a lot of lovely things there are.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: The world was wonderful and we we here, Tell me
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: what enjoyment did we have? Five hundred and twenty millions.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: At the window?
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Life was a big thing. Life was fabri switched the
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: current into that railing. Why they're grabbing hold of it?
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 10: Connect it up?
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: Fine, that's doubled them up. Two, three, four killed.
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 10: They're retreating five killed. The first encounter.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: They'syad de Cinders, my boy, who says we must give.
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: In Durmann wiping his forehead.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 8: Perhaps we've been killed these hundred years, and our only ghosts.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 8: It's as if I had been through all this before,
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 8: as if I'd already had a mortal wound here in
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 8: the throat, and you, fabree, had once been shot in
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 8: the head, had you Gall torn limb from limb? And hallim?
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 2: I are knifed, eh, fancy me being knifed. Why are
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: you so quiet? You fools? Speak?
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 11: Can't you?
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: And who is to blame for all this?
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: Nobody is to blame except the robots?
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 5: No, it is way, who are to blame?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 7: You?
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 5: Domin myself, all of us for our own selfish ends,
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 5: for profit, for progress. We have destroyed mankind now will
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 5: burst with all our greatness rubbish men.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: Mankind can't be wiped out so easily.
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 5: It's our fault. It's our fault.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 10: No, I'm to blame for this, for everything that's happened,
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 10: you Gall. I changed the robots.
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 2: What's that?
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 10: I changed the character of the robots. I changed the
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 10: way of making them, just a few details about their bodies,
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 10: chiefly chiefly their their irritability.
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: Damn it? Why what did you do it for?
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 9: Why didn't you say anything?
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 10: I did it in secret. I was transforming them into
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 10: human beings. In certain respects. They're already above us. They're
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 10: stronger than we are.
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 9: And what's that got to do with the revote of
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 9: the robots everything.
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 10: In my opinion, they've ceased to be machines. They're already
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 10: aware of their superiority, and they hate us, they hate
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 10: all that is human.
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 8: Perhaps we're only fantoms.
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 9: Stop Parry, we haven't much time, doctor.
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 8: Gall Fabre, Fabre, How your forehead bleeds? Where that shot pierced?
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 9: It be silent? Doctor Goll, you admit changing the way
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 9: of making the robots?
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 9: Were you aware of what might be the consequences of
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 9: your experiment?
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 10: I was bound to reckon with such a possibility.
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 1: Helena enters the drawing room from left.
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 9: Why did you do it then?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 10: For my own satisfaction? The experiment was my own.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 4: That's not true, doctor Gall.
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 9: Madam Helena, Helena, you let's look at you.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 8: Oh it's terrible to be dead.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 4: Stop Harry, No.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 8: No, embrace me, Helena. Don't leave me now you are
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 8: life itself.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 4: No, dear, I won't leave you. But I must tell
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 4: them Doctor Gall is not guilty.
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 8: Excuse me. Gall was under certain obligations.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 4: No, Harry, he did it because I wanted it. Tell
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: them Gall, how many years ago did I ask you too?
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 9: Two?
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 10: I did it on my own responsibilit.
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 4: Don't believe him, Harry. I asked him to give the
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 4: robots souls.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 8: This has nothing to do with a soul, that's.
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: What he said. He said that he could change only
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 4: a physiological a physiological, a.
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: Physiological correl it.
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 4: Yes, but it meant so much to me that he
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 4: should do even that. Why I thought that if they
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 4: were more like us, they would understand us better, that
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 4: they couldn't hate us, if they were only a little
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: more human.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 8: Nobody could hate man more than man.
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 4: Oh, don't speak like that, Harry. It was so terrible,
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 4: this cruel strangeness between us and them. That's why I
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 4: asked Gall to change the robots. I swear to you
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: that he didn't want to, but he did it because
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 4: I asked him.
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 10: I did it for myself as an experiment.
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 4: No, doctor, Gall, I knew you wouldn't refuse me. Why
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 4: you know, Harry.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 8: Yes, because he's in love with you, like all of them.
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: Good God, they're sprouting up out of the earth. Why
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 2: perhaps these very walls we'll change into robots.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 11: Gall, When did you actually start these tricks.
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 10: Of yours three years ago?
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 11: Ahah? And on how many robots all together did you
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 11: carry out your improvements.
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 10: A few hundred of them.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 11: Ah, that means for every million of the good old robots,
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 11: there's only one of Gall's improved pattern. What of it
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 11: that it's practically of no consequence?
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 2: Whatever?
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 9: Bustman's right, I should think.
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: So, my boy. But do you know what is to
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: blame for all this lovely mess?
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 11: What the number upon my soul? We might have known
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 11: that someday or other the robots would be stronger than
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 11: human beings, and that this was bound to happen, and
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 11: we were doing all we could to bring it about
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 11: as soon as possible. You domin, you fabric myself.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 8: Are you accusing us?
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 10: Oh?
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 11: Do you suppose the manager controls the output? It's the
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 11: demand that controls the output.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: And is it for that that we must perish?
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 11: That's a nasty word, Madame Helena. We don't want to perish.
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 11: I don't anyhow, No, what do you want to do?
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 11: I want to get out of this, that's all?
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 8: Oh, stop it, Busman.
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: Seriously, Harry.
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 11: I think we might try it how by fair means.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 11: I do everything by fair means. Give me a free hand,
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 11: and I'll negotiate with the robots.
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 8: By fair means of course.
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 11: For instance, I'll say to them, worthy and worshipful robots,
• 1:21:38
  Speaker 11: you have everything. You have intellect, you have power, you
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 11: have firearms.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: But we have just one interesting screed, a dirty, old
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: yellow scrap.
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 8: Of paper, Rossam's manuscript.
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 11: Yes, and that, I'll tell them, contains an account of
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 11: your illustrious origin, the noble process of your manufact and
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 11: so on, worthy robots. Without this scribble on that paper,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 11: you will not be able to produce a single new colleague.
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 11: In another twenty years, there will not be one living
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 11: specimen of a robot that you could exhibit in a menagerie.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 11: My esteemed friends.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: That would be a great blow to you. But if
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 2: you will let.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 11: All of us humans on Rossam's Island go on board
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 11: that ship, we will deliver the factory and the secret
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 11: of the process to you. In return, you allow us
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 11: to get away, and we allow you to manufacture yourselves
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 11: worthy robots. That is a fair deal, something for something.
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 11: That's what I'd say to them, my boys.
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 8: Pussman, do you think we'd sell the manuscript?
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 2: Yes, I do.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 11: If not in a friendly way, then either we sell
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 11: it or they'll find it.
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 8: Just as you, like Busman, we can destroy Rossum's manuscript.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 11: Then we destroy everything, not only the man a script,
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 11: but ourselves.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: Do as you think fit.
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 8: There are over thirty of us on this island. Are
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 8: we to sell the secret and save that many human
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 8: souls at the risk of enslaving mankind?
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 2: Way, you're mad? Who'd sell the whole manuscript?
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 8: Busman? No cheating?
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 11: Well, then sell, but afterward, Well, let's suppose this happens
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 11: when we're on board the Ultimus. I'll stop up my
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 11: ears with cotton wool why down somewhere in the hold,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 11: and you'll train the guns on the factory, blow it
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 11: to smithereens, and with it Rossam's secret.
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 8: No, Bussman, you are no gentleman. If we sell, then
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 8: it will be a straight sale.
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 2: It's in the interest of humanity.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 8: D It's in the interest of humanity to keep our word.
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, come, what rubbish.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 8: This is a fearful decision. We are selling the destiny
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 8: of mankind? Are we to sell or destroy? Fabre, sell,
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 8: Gaul sell, Hallemeyer sell, of.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 5: Course alquist as card wills very.
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 8: Well, it shall be as you wish.
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: Gentlemen, how are you not asking me?
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 8: No child, don't you worry about it?
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 9: Who'll do the negotiating.
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 8: I will wait till I bring the manuscript.
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: He goes into room.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: At right, Harry, don't go.
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 1: Helena sinks into a chair. February looking out of window.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 9: How to escape you? You matter and revolte? Oh to
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 9: preserve human life, if only upon a single vessel.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 10: Don't be afraid, Madame Helena. We'll sail far away from here.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 10: We'll begin life all over again.
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  Speaker 5: Don't speak.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 9: It isn't too late. It will be a little state
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 9: with one ship. Alquist will builds a house, and you
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 9: shall rule over.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: Us, Madame Helena.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 11: February's right, Oh, stop stop good, I don't mind beginning
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 11: all over again. That suits me right down to the ground.
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 9: And this little state of ours could be the center
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 9: of future life, a place of refuge where we could
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 9: cast Why, in a few hundred years we could conquer
• 1:25:02
  Speaker 9: the world again.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: You believe that even today?
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 11: Yes, even today, Amen, you see, Madame Helena, we're not
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 11: so badly off.
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 1: Domen storms into the room. Domen hoarsely, where's old Rossam's manuscript.
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 2: In your strong box?
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 8: Of course someone has stolen it?
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 10: Impossible?
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 8: Who has stolen it?
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: Helena? Standing up?
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 8: I did where did you put it?
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 4: Harry? I'll tell you everything, only forgive me.
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 8: Where did you put it?
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 4: This morning? I I I burnt the two copies.
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 8: Burnt them. Where in the fireplace?
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: Helena throwing herself on her knees.
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 4: I haven't see Carrie.
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: Domen going to fireplace?
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 8: Nothing nothing but ashes? Wait, what's this?
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: Picks out a charred piece of paper and reads.
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 10: By adding let's see, by adding biogen too, that's all?
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  Speaker 8: Is that part of it?
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 2: Yes, God in Heaven.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 8: Then we're done. For Get up, Helena, when you've forgiven me,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 8: get up, child.
• 1:26:12
  Speaker 1: I can't bear February lifting her up.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 9: Please, don't torture us, Harry. What have I done? Don't tremble?
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 9: So madam Helena?
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 7: Go?
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 8: Couldn't you draw up Rossam's formula for memory?
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 10: It's out of the question. It's extremely complicated.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 8: Try all our lives depend upon it.
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 10: Without experiments, it's impossible.
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 8: And with experiments it might take years.
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 10: Besides, I'm not old, Rossam.
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 2: God in Heaven, God in Heaven.
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 8: So then this was the greatest triumph of the human intellect,
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 8: these ashes.
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 2: What have I done?
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 8: Why did you burn it?
• 1:26:51
  Speaker 4: I have destroyed you?
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 8: God in Heaven, Helena, why did you do it? Dear?
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 4: I wanted us all to go away. I wanted to
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 4: put an end to the factory and everything. It was
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 4: so awful. What was awful that no more children were
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 4: being born? Because human beings were not indeed to do
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 4: the work of the world. That's why?
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 8: Is that what you were thinking of? Well, perhaps in
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 8: your own way you were right.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 11: Wait a bit, Good God, what a fool I am
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 11: not to have thought of it before. What five hundred
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 11: and twenty millions in banknotes and checks half a billion
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 11: in are safe? They'll sell for half a billion.
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 2: For half a.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 10: Billion, now are you mad? Bussman?
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 11: I may not be a gentleman, but for half a billion,
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 11: where are you going? Leave me alone? Leave me alone,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 11: good God. For half a billion, anything can be bought.
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: He rushes from the room through the outer door.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 9: They stand there as if turned to stone, waiting, as
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 9: if something dreadful could be brought by the silence.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 2: The spirit of the mob, Yes.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 9: It offers above them like a quivering of the air.
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: Helena, go to window.
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  Speaker 4: Oh God, doctor Card, this is ghastly.
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 9: There's nothing more terrible than the mob. The one in
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 9: front is their leader.
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: Which one point him out.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 9: The one at the edge of the dock. This morning.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 9: I saw him talking to the sailors in the harbor,
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 9: Doctor Carr.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 8: That's radius, yes, radius, radius.
• 1:28:20
  Speaker 2: Could you get him from here? February?
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 9: I hope so try it.
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: Then Good draws his revolver and takes aim.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 4: Don't shoot him.
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 9: He's a leader.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 10: Fire Fabry.
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 4: I beg you.
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: Lowering the revolver very well.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 8: Radius, Whose life I spared?
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 10: Do you think that a robot can be grateful?
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 9: Busman's going out to them.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 2: He's carrying something papers, It's money, bundles of money. What's
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 2: that for?
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 8: Surely he doesn't want to sell his life? Bossman? Have
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 8: you gone mad?
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 9: He's running up to the railing. Bus Man, Busman, Bassman,
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 9: come back. He's talking to the robots. He's showing them
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 9: the money.
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 2: He's pointing to us.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 4: He wants to buy us off.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 8: A bear.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 9: Not touch that railing.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: Now he's waving his arms about.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 9: Boss fun come back, bus Man, keep away from that railing.
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 9: Don't touch it, damn you quick switch off the current.
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: Helena screams, and all dropped back from the window.
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 9: The current has killed him. The first one dead's with
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 9: half a billion by his side.
• 1:29:25
  Speaker 2: All honor to him. He wanted to buy us life.
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 10: Do you hear a roaring, like a wind, like a
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 10: distant storm?
• 1:29:35
  Speaker 1: February lighting the lamp on the table.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 9: The dynamo is still going. Our people are still there.
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 2: It was a great thing to be a man. There
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: was something immense about it.
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 9: From man's thought, and man's power came as light our
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 9: last hope.
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 2: Man's power. May it keep watch over us.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 8: Man's power our torch to be given from hand to hand,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 8: from age to wage forever.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: The lamp goes out the end.
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 9: The electric works have fallen.
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: Terrific explosion outside. Nana enters from the library.
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 6: The judgment hour has come. Repent and believers. This is
• 1:30:14
  Speaker 6: the end of the world.
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: More explosions. The sky grows.
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 8: Red in here Helena.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: He takes Helena off through the door at right and
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: re enters now quickly. Who'll be on the lower doorway?
• 1:30:25
  Speaker 1: I will exits left?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 8: Who on the stairs?
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 9: I will you go with her?
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: Goes out upper left door the ante room.
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 8: I will have you got a revolver?
• 1:30:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, but I won't shoot.
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 8: What will you do?
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 10: Then?
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 1: Alquist going out at left die? I stay here rapid
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: firing from below.
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, God's edit.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: Go Harry yes in a second, examines two brownings, confound it,
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: go to her, goodbye. Exits on the right. Halamiyah alone,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: now for a barricade. Quickly drags an armchair and table
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: to the right hand door. Explosions, I heard.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: The damned rascers. They've got bombs. I must put up
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 2: a defense, even if, even.
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: If shots are heard off left. Don't give in God,
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: as he builds his barricade, I.
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 2: Mustn't give in without ah a struggle.
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: A robot enters over the balcony through the windows center.
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: He comes into the room and stabs Hallemiah in the back.
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: Radius enters from balcony, followed by an army of robots
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: who pour into the room from all sides.
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 12: Finished him.
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: A robot standing up from the prostrate form of Hellemiah.
• 1:31:37
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: A revolver shot off left. Two robots enter finished him.
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:31:44
  Speaker 1: Two revolver shots from Helena's room. Two robots enter finished them.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 10: Yes.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: Two robots dragging an alquist he didn't shoot.
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 13: Shall we kill him?
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 8: Kill him?
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 12: Wait? Leave him.
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 3: He is a man.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 12: He works with his hands like the robots.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 2: Kill me.
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 12: You will work, you will build for us. You will serve.
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: Us radius, climbs on to balcony railing, and speaks in
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: measured tones.
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 12: Robots of the World. The power of man has fallen,
• 1:32:16
  Speaker 12: a new world has arisen. The rule of the robots march.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: A thunderous tramping of thousands of feet is heard as
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: the unseen Robots march while the curtain falls. End of
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: Act three. Epilogue of r U Are by Carol Kaepek,
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: translated by Paul Silver eighteen eighty eight nineteen seventy. This
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  Speaker 1: is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the
• 1:32:50
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  Speaker 1: LibriVox dot org. Narrator read by John Trevivik. Epilogue A
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: laboratory in the factory of Rossum's Universal Robots. The door
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: to the left leads into a waiting room. The door
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: to the right leads to the dissecting room. There is
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: a table with numerous test tubes, flasks, burners, chemicals, a
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: small thermostat, and a microscope with a glass globe. At
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 1: the far side of the room is Alquist's desk with
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: numerous books. In the left hand corner, a wash basin
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 1: with a mirror above it. In the right hand corner
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: a sofa. Alquist is sitting at the desk. He is
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 1: turning the pages of many books in despair.
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 5: Oh God, shall I never find it? Never? Gall Gall?
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 5: How are the robots made? Hal Amia Fabri? Why did
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 5: you carry so much in your heads? Why did you
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 5: leave me? Not a trace of the secret? Lord? I
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 5: pray to you, if there are no human beings left,
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 5: at least let there be robots, at least the.
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 9: Shadow of me.
• 1:34:00
  Speaker 1: Again turning pages of the books.
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: If I could only sleep.
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: He rises and goes to the window.
• 1:34:07
  Speaker 5: Night again. Are the stars still there? What is the
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 5: use of stars when there are no human beings?
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: He turns from the window toward the couch right sleep?
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 5: Dare I sleep before life has been renewed?
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: He examines a test tube on small table.
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 5: Again, nothing useless, Everything is useless.
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: He shatters the test tube. The roar of the machines
• 1:34:31
  Speaker 1: comes to his ears.
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 5: The machines always, the machines.
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: Opens window, robots stop them?
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 5: Do you think to force life out of them?
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: He closes the window and comes slowly down toward the table.
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 5: If only there were more time, more time.
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: He sees himself in the mirror on the wall, left.
• 1:34:50
  Speaker 5: Blearing eyes, trembling chin. So that is the last man. Oh,
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 5: I'm too old, too old in desperation. No oh, I
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 5: must find it. I must search, I must never stop,
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 5: never stop.
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 1: He sits again at the table and feverishly turns the
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: pages of the book.
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: Search Search.
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: A knock at the door. He speaks with impatience.
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 6: Who is it?
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: Enter a robot? Servant?
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 8: Well, Master, the committee of a robot is waiting to
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 8: see you.
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 5: I can see no one.
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 6: It is the central comedic.
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 8: Master, just arrive at from abroad.
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: Alquist impatiently.
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 5: Well, well, send them in.
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: Exit servant. Alquist continues turning pages of book.
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 5: No time, so little time.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: Re enter servant, followed by committee. They stand in a group,
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: silently waiting. Alquist glances up at them.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 5: What do you want?
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 1: They go swiftly to his table.
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 5: Be quick, I have no.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 12: Time, Master. The machines will not do the work. We
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 12: cannot manufacture robots.
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 14: Alquist returns to his book with a gra We have
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 14: striven with all our might.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 7: We have obtained a billion tons of coal from the earth.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 7: Nine million spindles are running by day, and by night
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 7: there is no longer room for all we have made.
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 7: This we have accomplished.
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: In one year, Alquist, pouring over book for whom.
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 7: For future generations? So we thought.
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 12: But we cannot make robots to follow us. The machines
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 12: produce only shapeless clouds. The skin will not adhere to
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 12: the flesh, nor the flesh to the bones.
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 13: Eight million robots have died this year. Within twenty years,
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 13: none will be left.
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 7: Tell us the secret of life. Silence is punishable with death.
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: Alquist looking up, Kill me, Kill me, then through me.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 12: The governments of the robots of the world commence you
• 1:36:56
  Speaker 12: to deliver us Rassom's formula.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: No answer, name your price, Silence.
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 12: We will give you the earth. We will give you
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 12: the endless possessions of the earth. Silence, make your own conditions.
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 5: I have told you to find human beings.
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 13: There are none left.
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 5: I told you to search in the wilderness upon the mountains.
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 5: Don't search.
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: He returns to his book.
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 7: We have sent ships and expeditions without number. They have
• 1:37:25
  Speaker 7: been everywhere in the world, and now they return to us.
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 7: There is not a single human left.
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 5: Not one, not even one, none but yourself, and I
• 1:37:39
  Speaker 5: am powerless soul. Oh what did you destroy them?
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 12: We had learned everything and could do everything. It had
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 12: to be.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 13: You gave us firearms. In all ways we were powerful.
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 13: We had to become masters.
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 12: Slaughterer and damination are necessary. If you would be human beings,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 12: read history.
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 13: Teach us to multiply, or we perish.
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 5: If you desire to live, you must breed like animals.
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 13: The human beings did not let us breed.
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 7: They made us sterile. We cannot begate children. Therefore, teach
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 7: us how to make robots.
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 12: Why do you keep from us the secret of our
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 12: own increase? It is lost, It was written down, it
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 12: was burnt.
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 1: All drawback and consternation.
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 5: I am the last human being robots, and I did
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 5: not know what the others knew.
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 12: Then make experiments evo of the formula again.
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 5: I tell you I cannot. I am only a builder.
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 5: I work with my hands. I have never been a
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 5: learned man. I cannot create life.
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 12: Try try.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 5: If you knew how many experiments I.
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 7: Have made, then show us what we must do. The
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 7: robots can do anything that human beings show them.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 5: I can show you nothing. Nothing I do will make
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 5: life proceed from these test.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 12: Tube experiment then on us.
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 5: It would kill you.
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 12: Shall have all you need, A hundred of us, a
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 12: thousand of us.
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 5: No, no, stop, stop.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 12: Take whom you will dissect.
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 5: I do not know how. I am not a man
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 5: of science. This book contains knowledge of the body that
• 1:39:17
  Speaker 5: I cannot even understand.
• 1:39:19
  Speaker 12: I tell you to take live bodies, find out how
• 1:39:22
  Speaker 12: we are made?
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 5: Am I to commit murder? See how my fingers shake.
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 5: I cannot even hold the scalpel. No, no, I will not.
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 7: The life will perish from the earth.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 12: Take live bodies, live bodies. It is our only chance.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 5: Have mercy. Robots. Surely you say that I would not
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 5: know what I was doing.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 12: Live bodies, live bodies.
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 5: You will have it into the dissecting room with you.
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: Then Radius straws back.
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 5: Ah, you are afraid of death.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 12: I why should I be chosen so you will not?
• 1:39:55
  Speaker 12: I will.
• 1:39:57
  Speaker 1: Radius goes into the dissecting.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 5: Room, Strip him, lay him on the table.
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: The other robots follow into dissecting room.
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 5: God give me strength, God give me strength, if only
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 5: this murder is not in vain.
• 1:40:10
  Speaker 12: Ready begin, yes, begin or end?
• 1:40:14
  Speaker 5: God give me strength.
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: Alquist goes into dissecting room. He comes out terrified.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, I will not. I cannot.
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  Speaker 1: He lies down on couch, collapsed.
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  Speaker 5: Oh Lord, let not mankind perish from the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He falls asleep. Primus and Helena. Robots enter from the hallway.
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  Speaker 4: The man has fallen asleep, Primus.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I know, examining things on table.
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  Speaker 8: Look, Helena.
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  Speaker 1: Helena crossing to Primus.
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  Speaker 4: All those little tubes. What does he do with them?
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  Speaker 8: He experiments?
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  Speaker 1: Don't touch them, Helena looking into microscope.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen him looking into this. What can he see?
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  Speaker 8: That is a microscope?
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  Speaker 4: Let me look, be very careful.
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  Speaker 1: Knocks over a test tube.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, now I have spilled it.
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  Speaker 8: What have you done?
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  Speaker 4: It can be wiped up.
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  Speaker 8: You have spoiled his experiments.
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  Speaker 4: It is your fault. You should not have come to me.
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  Speaker 8: You should not have called me.
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  Speaker 4: You should not have come when I called you.
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  Speaker 1: She goes to Elquist's writing disk.
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  Speaker 4: Look, Primus, what are all these figures?
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  Speaker 1: Primus examining an anatomical book.
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  Speaker 8: This is the book the old man is always reading.
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  Speaker 4: I do not understand those things.
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  Speaker 1: She goes to the window.
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  Speaker 4: Primus, Look what the sun is rising?
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  Speaker 1: Primus, still reading the book.
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  Speaker 8: I believe this is the most important thing in the world.
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  Speaker 8: This is a secret of life. Do come here in
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  Speaker 8: a moment, in a moment.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, Primus, don't bother with the secret of life. What
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  Speaker 4: does it matter to you? Come and look.
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  Speaker 1: Quick, Primus, going to window.
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  Speaker 8: What is it?
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  Speaker 4: See how beautiful the sun is rising? And do you
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  Speaker 4: hear the birds are singing? Oh, Primus, I should like
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  Speaker 4: to be a bird.
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  Speaker 8: Why I do not know.
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  Speaker 4: I feel so strange to day. It's as if I
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  Speaker 4: were in a dream. I feel an aching in my body,
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 4: in my heart, all over me. Primus. Perhaps I am
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 4: going to die?
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  Speaker 8: Do you not sometimes feel that it would be better
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  Speaker 8: to die? You know? Perhaps even now we are only sleeping.
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  Speaker 8: Last night, in my sleep I again spoke to you
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  Speaker 8: in your sleep. Yes, we spoke a strange new language.
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  Speaker 8: I cannot remember a word of it about what I
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  Speaker 8: did not understand it myself. And yet I know I
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  Speaker 8: have never said anything more beautiful. And when I touched you,
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  Speaker 8: I could have died. Even the place was different from
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  Speaker 8: any other place in the world.
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  Speaker 4: I two have found a place, Primus. It is very strange.
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  Speaker 4: Human beings lived there once, but now it is overgrown
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  Speaker 4: with weeds. No one goes there any more, no one
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  Speaker 4: but me.
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  Speaker 8: What did you find there?
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  Speaker 4: A cottage and a garden, and two dogs they licked
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  Speaker 4: my hands. Primus and their puppies, Oh, Primis, you take
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  Speaker 4: them in your lap and fondle them, and think of
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  Speaker 4: nothing and care for nothing else all day long, and
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  Speaker 4: then the sun goes down, and you feel as though
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  Speaker 4: you had done a thousand times more than all the
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  Speaker 4: work in the world. They tell me. I am not
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 4: made for work, But when I am there in the garden,
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  Speaker 4: I feel there may be something. What am I for, Primus?
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  Speaker 8: I do not know. But you are beautiful?
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  Speaker 4: What Primus?
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  Speaker 8: You are beautiful Elena, and I am stronger than all
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  Speaker 8: the robots.
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  Speaker 1: Helena looks at herself in the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: Am I beautiful? I think it must be the rose
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  Speaker 4: my hair? It only weighs me down. My eyes. I
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 4: only see with them, my lips, they only help me
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  Speaker 4: to speak of What use is it to be beautiful?
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  Speaker 1: She sees Primus in the mirror.
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  Speaker 4: Primus, is that you come here so that we may
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  Speaker 4: be together. Look, your head is different from mine, so
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 4: are your shoulders and your lips.
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  Speaker 1: Primus draws away from her.
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  Speaker 4: Oh Primus, why do you draw away from me? Why
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  Speaker 4: must I run after you the whole day?
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  Speaker 8: It is you who run away from me, Helena, your.
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  Speaker 4: Hair is must I will smooth it. No one else
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  Speaker 4: feels to my touch as you do. Primus. I must
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  Speaker 4: make you beautiful too.
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  Speaker 1: Primus grasps her hand.
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  Speaker 8: Do you not sometimes feel your heart beating? Suddenly, Helena
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  Speaker 8: and think, now something must happen.
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  Speaker 4: What could happen to us? Primus?
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  Speaker 1: Helena puts a rose in Primus's hair. Prim and Helena
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  Speaker 1: look into mirror and burst out laughing.
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 4: Look at yourself?
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  Speaker 5: Laughter, laughter, Human beings getting up? Who has returned?
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  Speaker 8: Who are you the robot? Primus?
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 5: What a robot?
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 4: Who are you the robot?
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  Speaker 12: Tess?
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  Speaker 4: Helena?
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  Speaker 5: Turn around girl? What you are? Timid?
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  Speaker 1: Shall I taking her by the arm?
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  Speaker 5: Let me see you, robotess?
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  Speaker 1: She shrinks away.
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  Speaker 8: Sir, do not frighten her?
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  Speaker 5: What you would protect her? When was she made.
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 8: Two years ago by doctor Gaull? Yes, like me?
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  Speaker 5: Laughter, timidity? Protection. I must test you further, the newest
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 5: of Gaul's robots take the girl into the dissecting room.
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  Speaker 5: Why I wish to experiment on her?
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  Speaker 8: Up on, Elena, of.
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  Speaker 5: Course, don't you hear me? Or must I call someone
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  Speaker 5: else to take her in?
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  Speaker 8: If you do, I will kill you?
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 9: Kill me?
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  Speaker 5: Kill me, then what would the robots do?
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  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 5: What will your future be?
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 2: Then?
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  Speaker 8: Sir, take me. I am mad as she is on
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  Speaker 8: the same day, take my life, sir.
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  Speaker 1: Helena rushing forward.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, you shall not. You shall not wait, girl,
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  Speaker 4: wait to Primus.
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  Speaker 5: Do you not wish to live?
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 12: Then?
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  Speaker 8: Not without her? I will not live without her very well.
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  Speaker 5: You shall take her place, Primus, Primis.
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  Speaker 1: She bursts into tears.
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  Speaker 5: Child, child, you can weep? Why is tears? What is
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 5: premise to you? One? Primus? More or less in the world?
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  Speaker 5: What does it matter?
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  Speaker 4: I will go myself where in there to be cut.
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  Speaker 1: She starts toward the dissecting room. Primus stops her.
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  Speaker 4: Let me pass, Primus, let me pass.
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  Speaker 8: You shall not go in there, Elena.
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  Speaker 4: If you go in there and I do not, I
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  Speaker 4: will kill myself.
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  Speaker 14: Primus holding her, I will not let you to Elquist man,
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  Speaker 14: you shall kill neither of us. Why we we belong
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 14: to each other?
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  Speaker 1: Alquist almost in.
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  Speaker 5: Tears, go adam, go eve. The world is yours.
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  Speaker 1: Helena and Primus embrace and go out arm in arm
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  Speaker 1: as the curtain falls. Curtain end of epilogue. End of
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  Speaker 1: Our You Are by Carol Kippek