September 6, 2024 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Adventures in time and space transcribed in Future People. Then
the National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Street and Smith,
(00:28):
publishers of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ex A rocket go through space like a silver fish
in an endless tank of starred and black velocity.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Swirling by insider case.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
These finance expects of humanity.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Control the tremendous.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Power that impelled her so relentlessly toward the other galaxies.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Who were these men?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
What mad fantastic need and desire that caused.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Them to abandon mother Earth and adventure to the ends
of the universe?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Captain House, what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Stone?
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Magnetic storm? And get aheads her and the aperture about one.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Hundred mile gap between them and sir, but shifting rapidly.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Switch on the radar screen.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Let's have a little better. They are asteroids in the cabin.
I see that, Thank your stone, Sir?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What any changing course?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
What for the stamps?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
If I decided to change course? Sty, issue the order
the right word porting, It'll be great? Is your order?
That's the stone?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Do I need to remind you who's master of this ship?
Speaker 8 (01:53):
Looks there are twenty five other lives to be considered
beside the run souse.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
That's the right shift that our court at enough, it's
not enough, captain, return to your post.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Captain, for God's sake, don't be bigheaded about this.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
There's a magnetic storm.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Get ahead.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Are you going to risk the lives of all of
us just so.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
You can hang your head on some wealthy get the
planetary rapid.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
We know this means a lot to you.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Sure you can be fleet admiral.
Speaker 10 (02:17):
I can be those asiatic ships to Venus.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
We value all.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
I happen to value my life just as much as
any man about this craft, mister Stone.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But I wasn't brought up to be a lily livered
dead nothing.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
I'll get back to your post or i'll have your
court martials. Well, mister Stone, Okay, okay, what mister Stone?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Okay, sir him kid in young, Maybe he's right with us.
You stick to.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Being ship stopped. You're good, advance. I'll navigate this, you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Know, the captain, Bly, I hate to pile up on
some little.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Ass, so especially when a.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Simple thing like changing the colimple things do you know
what it changed in chorus would mean the slightest deflection
would throw us a million miles off. At this speed,
it takes days to get back on the vector.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
By that time, one of.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
The Asiatic ships would have landed on Venus and claimed
the whole blasted planet.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But in the race charms.
Speaker 11 (03:24):
You know, I suppose they did claim Via there's nothing
but rocks and jungle.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Anyway, This isn't that the idea of someone beating it in?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Know, Louis, I always get a little bit gitterly when
men are willing to die.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
The symbols.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Get mollish, get lallish. Why is it lester the falling off?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Get what.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Good law?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
The whole blasted storm and shift it down as it
don't hire up your starboards, tigers on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You can't make it in time.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Listen that laid our bouts shut up. I'll hear this,
now hear this addition, red passing up? Thank you? Oh
I over the vision chamber, imagend be black.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I know we did it up. You ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We've got to make it over.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
So I decided to ship for your shut up.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It doesn't sound good.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
With us another five seconds or.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Three two wants to me.
Speaker 12 (04:39):
You're like, but god, look god, oh oh, anyway, can
you hear me. I can see your footing off there.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 13 (04:56):
I got say, I tell your cat up.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
I don't want to just hold on a Stone. Is
that you? Captain Hollis what we struck? An asteroid ship
blew up?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Anybody else alive?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't know. I can see some space utes floating
in space.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Not far from me, but I don't know if they're alive.
Speaker 13 (05:17):
Maybe they just don't hear us.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
The radios are working, they do.
Speaker 11 (05:21):
Hello, somebody that is that you Lewis?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes, thank god?
Speaker 13 (05:30):
Anybody else alive?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Stone? Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (05:35):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Okay, so far that's three of us anyway.
Speaker 12 (05:40):
Yes, we see them moving away from each other.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (05:46):
I can hardly see you know.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It's the momentum.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
We're all thrown in different directions. If there's no friction,
we'll pick.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Up speed and there's some way we could stick together,
at least I'm afraid not.
Speaker 13 (05:59):
If there's no friction, then there's nothing to stop us.
Speaker 10 (06:03):
That's right, Stone, But then we'll we'll just keep fun forever.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Not forever, you'll fall until you get into one of
the gravitational fields of some planet.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
After that, you'll fall toward.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The planet whether in heaven want a way to die.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Nobody's going to die. Those Asiatic ships will be along
this way. We can radio to them when they get
in range.
Speaker 13 (06:27):
Aren't you forgetting something?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Lewis? What's that?
Speaker 11 (06:30):
The commanders of those other ships may I'll be quite
willing to run through a magnetic storm.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
They may have all in court.
Speaker 13 (06:37):
If they have, they won't come with it a million.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Miles of us. Well that's they got chances on that.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
It's a long way down, a long long way down.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Talk of that kind of stone. I don't want to
die stone at the tenant patch stop.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Why you heard me? This is a bukeny of one.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Don't your ek on me down because you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Be ten some miles away in another hour. Oh help me.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Caught Marshalls one may have picked up.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
It's not kid myself.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Nobody's going to be picked up.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
I've got a few things to get off my chest
before we lose contact.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
With each other.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Oh thanks, your ship was a bad ship and you
were a bad captain.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
I hope you'll break when you hit them. O.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Thanks for the good will.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
So that isn't all I believe there are different kinds
of death. Captain tuns are different kinds of lives.
Speaker 13 (07:32):
Yours should be pretty interesting.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Because you've been different years.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh when was the last time.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You had an honest, human.
Speaker 13 (07:38):
Feeling, Captain, I'll bet you don't even remember when.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
You're capable of any kind of strong feeling. Do you
have a wife, Keptain, I'll bet she won't miss you
one bit.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Children, I have a son, little boy. Maybe he'll grow
up to be a hero like his daddy, But a
hero with.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
A piece of stone or other than that, heint.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are you quite finished?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I've said it.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So long time.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm headed for the sun.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Somehow, I don't like the idea of falling into the sun.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm going to take a quicker way out.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
No, Stone, don't be a fool to spe.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
On my helmet and let the extant escape.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Stone, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
We're going to be rescued.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Stone, see you out in some other universe.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
God, he was headed for the Sun. I can barely
see him now.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look like curd for me?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
How about you?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I'm headed for.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Funny, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
And I should be going back to Mother Earth this way,
I'm nothing but a human media child.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
When I hit deers at the fere I will burn
like a match. Oh, Charles, Charles, can you still hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I can hear you getting fainted?
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Now we must be several thousand miles apart.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
We should be able to talk for another twenty minutes
or so at the speed by falling away from each other.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What are you thinking about? Willis?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was thinking about Stone What.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He said, don't let it get you know? No way?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
He was right.
Speaker 13 (09:36):
He was inane.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Shock knocked him off ballon.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Each of us dies in a different way.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Each of us has his own life to look back of.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Huh. I don't know, I said, let's square.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I don't think so. It's possible to sustend the radio.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
It's working up the receiving unit of damage.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Stuff to keep up.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 13 (10:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I don't know anybody alive? Is it engineers?
Speaker 11 (10:26):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't know?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Mother, I say, somebody that's also a lea?
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Can you heverybody? You can hear me?
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Like Eddy, listen, we had an accident.
Speaker 13 (10:44):
Wall Oh, what's see you?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
He doesn't even know we can hear him.
Speaker 13 (10:48):
What devil may have forgot to switch on his receiving unit.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Well, there are three of us again anyway.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Yeah, it's much comfort. Maybe maybe it's still is best.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It will be a four cool. I'm going to be
picked up.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I uh, they must, I must.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I had too much to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
In life to die like this fellow, like Stone un
Lester become a diamond dozen.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
If I was in line to the commander.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Of the whole fleet, you know that means.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Child, the madener of the heavy sphere. No, I don't
know what it means.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
I never wanted to be commander of anything but myself,
and I never even came close to that.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Helen was counting on her. Stevie too in his own
little way, and harder for Helen.
Speaker 13 (11:35):
Peeley's too young to understand.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
He'll know.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
He'll know his daddy went out with a ship like
a man. They'll give him a medal.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
So if I'm beginning to think that maybe Stone was
right about you, huh what.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Do you mean?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
No, No, Charles, I wanna know.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
We've shipped together a good many years.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
You never told me what you really think it means,
whether or not you then did my success.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'd like to know. Now we have nothing to do
but talk.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
I have never ended anything except the fact that you're
falling back.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
To where it's Lewis, I've admired who I admired of,
some sort of perfect machine. But that's where it stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know the trouble with you, Lewis.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Well you can't cry.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
But you can't cry.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
But men don't cry, only children.
Speaker 13 (12:32):
That's what I mean, Lewis, you can't cry.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I don't know what the devil you're babbling about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Uh, skip it none, I'll look here.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
There's one thing on law.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Why the wife on jupibore w the wop on boom wow?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
What's he babbling about?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I don't know. He seems to be rising about his
life all.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Abody and their mothers or rock. See like fifteen years
and you still look.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
Like a school girl. Oh he's a boy too.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh a doing now? Oh hoches art and so on?
That I the one hook the boys.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
What they says, my son, they go carry on, don't
get fresh with the girls. It suddenly if you don't
one get me and fling it when he smile of
his and say why daddy, they carry a call back?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, oh on this you tell much?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Oh well, lad they listen.
Speaker 13 (13:35):
You can't complain you've had the best of it and
some to spare.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Mm uhh simple so one too simple?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Really?
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Why because he has oh, let's hang on to uh
woman always right for me, and ran always wanting them,
and jellous the men like less of having them, and
jelous something for being able to spend money without fear.
And what as much happened that he could have in
his own wild way? Haven't you ever wanted that?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Don't be a.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Fool, never been that.
Speaker 13 (14:06):
The lesters that he lives.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
In the present.
Speaker 13 (14:09):
He gets into the experience of the moment. You and
I Lois we live enough past and in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But never in the press could he changed the subject.
I thought you wanted to talk.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, let's talk about something else, chard charg cheg Are
you there, Joe?
Speaker 12 (14:35):
That's to me.
Speaker 13 (14:36):
I just switched to my uxitary battery.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm sorry, but don't don't do that.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Afraid to be alone, I've never been afraid of anything
in my life. But you know it, I wonder, Oh,
why doesn't he shut up?
Speaker 13 (14:57):
Really? What I have been having a media's warm some
little asteroid it is.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
I think it's that glad to go down past now?
Then slings in Dorset for every five years.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm right in the middle of it now, like a big.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Kaleidoscope, all kinds of colors and shapes and sighters.
Speaker 12 (15:20):
God is pared up all that memo.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'm going with them.
Speaker 12 (15:25):
They take me with them, They'll.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Have me dog on.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Remember when you.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Were kid, Lewis telling kaleidoscope, your eyes.
Speaker 12 (15:33):
Gave it a twelve.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
That's what I'm part of.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Now keep talking.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I can barely hear you.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Now you're taking me off.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Lewis jobs charge.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Don't leave me alone like this job job. Listen, listen,
(16:08):
can you hear me?
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Gambled away?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
God, why don't you shut out?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There was a time love all.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
God, I'll get Wait, it's all over, Lester, just as
if it never happened.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
And Annie, you don't regret.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Really, what good does it do?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You're your fool one. The thing's over. It's not good anymore.
You're no better off than me.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Look at what I've accomplished.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Rock you floating there languishing over some skinny, misforgotten flood.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Of a wife.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
My wife is beautiful, I understand, beautiful, like marble, Like marbles.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
You'll find yourself another man shall good time, No.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
She won't be faithful to my memory, Helen.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Helen, you will be faithful, won't you?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
You never forget me?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I will.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
I w up my radio.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
There, say that's better.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
You're alone now, Captain Hollis, alone with yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
And your memories, going back towards.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Like a human rocket.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And remembering.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes, Helen, it's me.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
I have you, but I thought, I mean well, I
forgot about that. I had some trouble, Helen.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
We won't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Your home now.
Speaker 14 (18:10):
That's the important thing, Stevie, is the tide right here.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
Stevie Stee, Steve Stee, Hello, son, you're going to see
this time like today, You're going to stay alone.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
We'll go and please again just like you.
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Well, Stevie, I'm kind of all different coming.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Would you like to see him?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I would.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Go away, down, I won't.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I won't go away.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
He's quite a little guy, mate.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
I'm glad you're finally getting together with him.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What do you mean, Helen, you've always been.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
So well, it's coming.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Steps a little preacher on the other one from your
really was just a little astaction and respectuous, just a.
Speaker 12 (19:03):
Little respect of the things he's wanted.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I've been a good father.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Nobody can ever say I haven't been a good father.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Certainly not to you, not after what happened. Don't get
defensive to a plea that kind of bring.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I've given him everything a boy should have, boys, boxing love,
I've taught him to hunt and take care of himself.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah he's got all those.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, then.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Well don't come.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
When he's come to you.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
He alone.
Speaker 12 (19:39):
He wants you to put your arms around him and reassure.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Him that he's going to be a man. I don't
want him to be taught.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What is it?
Speaker 12 (19:47):
What is there about being tall?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
And you?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Christ?
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I don't start that business again, will you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I understand what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Go like all of them.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I want to make you a woman like them.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I want to drain you of your manhood so they
can control you, manipulate you.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
You won't have when you won't me.
Speaker 14 (20:12):
Or anybody else, including yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Now you're talking, we let walk between us, do and
stop this time.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I have no plad When you came back, we get
out of the beach, and.
Speaker 14 (20:24):
Then the spot where we used to swim, and the
moti you can see the water or over the brain
and then we can have picnics uPAR there, just you
and Celi and me.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
Stevie can sleep on the planket.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
We could go for a swim.
Speaker 14 (20:41):
Maybe maybe we could recapture Tord.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
It wasn't away, maybe if we went back.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I'm sorry, Helen, I'd like to really, but h well.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm shipping out tonight. Tonight I've got a new command viewership,
having lunch.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
With the admirals at that noon.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
This is an important thing, Helen. This is the most
important thing.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
That ever happened to me.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You don't get a chance of being fleet commander every day.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
You can go for a swim anytime.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Yeah, we never do.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Hello, Honey.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Ever since I was a cadet, I've been pointing toward
this job.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's a big.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
If I'm a success with the nav, your own ticket,
big house up in Connecticut, chauffeur, find.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
A school for Steve. I want you don't be unreasonable.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 13 (21:45):
No, I don't suppose you ever will.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Let the quarrel. Why do we always have a quarreling? Well,
it's almost time now.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Try what's on?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Why Helen, say goodbye to the boy, right, good gosh, Helen.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Where are you, Helen?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Helen?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Huh oh no, I must be going out of my mind.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
The whole thing was nothing but a dream.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Only I.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Had someone to talk to, Alice that you Lessen.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
No, it's just another part of the same night there come.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Why must I be tortured like this?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Ellen?
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Thank god, sir, I I found it too loose in
this receiver.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Uh, I can hear you talking to.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yourself, less her, let's us meal you, yes, sir.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Thank Kevin's captain.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Any of the others can at all?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Staring much of the sun.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Doctor Carter went off with a media swam.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
The others are scattered all over the universe by now.
I've had it right for a I'll be in the
orbit soon.
Speaker 13 (23:12):
Like good d your voice, sir, I was going sang
all by myself here.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Seems like I've been singing and talking the.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Old bloody night.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well you heard you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I'm glad we can reach one.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh me too, sir? Are you really glad?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Lester?
Speaker 8 (23:25):
I should think you hate and despise me. Why, Sir,
I could have saved the sword by changing course?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Uh, the way I.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
See you, Captain, you did what you believed him that's
the way each other us has to do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Thank you, Lester.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
How long you'll figure we got, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Not long.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm afraid at least not me.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
That's a terrible thing, any captain.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I mean, knowing you're gonna.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
Die, and not for being able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
At least you've got pleasant memories.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Me said, no, I never mind do a hell of things.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
I should think you would have some good thoughts to
remember yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Alright, I never lived Leicester. Y, It's true. I never lived.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Hure why we were strangers? We never knew each other.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Uh huh that soun Leicester.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Would you believe it if I told you I'd never
put my arms around the boy and let him know
how much I loved to Oh what a thought of.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Beliefs, sir, It's true.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
It's odd the you ta art and kept.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Oh whatever I do, your position you would come.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Out of eh.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I thought so too, But I know better now. My
whole life was nothing but her running away from my
own feelings. I had everything I really wanted.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
All I had to do was reach out my hand.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
There was Helen Stevie pleasures, and I turned my back
and looked at the stars when they came to me,
filled with their love and their warmth.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I ran, I fled to the stars and to the
ends of the universe.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It was all so wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Other things like that happened to us, Leicester.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
I don't know, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
We were going to be divorced, Helen and I.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Oh stupid, idiotic.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Oh I you'll be picked up, cap.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
They got the spaceships.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Take me off from Earth, maybe one.
Speaker 13 (25:05):
I'll wake you before you hit.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
The atmosphere there to hope we aren't that lucky letter.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Then you get a second chance.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I can see you now, Lester.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But the earth, big and green and rich, will be
more than a few minutes at this rate. Oh there
was something, Yes.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Feel the friction starting now.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I'll burn in a minute. I'll be scattered like ashes
all across the land.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Funny.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
That's a useful act, isn't it, to help other things grow?
Speaker 12 (25:34):
I don't talk like that.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I'm sorry, Lester, You're a good man.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I hope they rest to you. Maybe, Lester, maybe I am.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
After all, he's got a twist high that's all.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
It wasn't my.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Blame, Bunny Cat.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I feel a sense of calm now, almost relief.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
If you ever get out of a cold shower and
feel like.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
A new man, clean and ready for breakfast in a
new day.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I have a feeling like that. It's a beautiful but
good to go home. I wonder if anyone won't see me, Papa?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Oh but.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Why didn't come down to the beach tonight?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
I just wanted to see the ocean.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Die.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Are you cold?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You know?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Mom?
Speaker 13 (26:51):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Die?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
When's dad come back? I don't know, Steve, I don't no.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Oh what's the matter between you and dad?
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You'd understand.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Don't you love each other?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I suppose in the way we do it used to
be quite different.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It was long ago when you were a tiny, tiny baby.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Your father and I used to come down here and
swim at night. I was the first girl he ever loved.
And remember somehow.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Something happened, he.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Got frightened or something, and we sort of lost each other. Oh,
come here, Steve, what's wrong? Huh?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I step you're a little child.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Perhaps we better be getting back. It's so much your bedtime.
Oh kayma, No, look at that A feeling start?
Speaker 14 (28:00):
Yes, I said, it's a.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Right to swift.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Did you see it? Move?
Speaker 12 (28:03):
A falling start?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Make a Wish, Make a Wish.
Speaker 15 (28:26):
You've just heard another adventure into the unknown world of
the future.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
A world of.
Speaker 15 (28:33):
The National Actor presented Transcribe each week by the National
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the magazine Astounding Science Fiction Today, the Mention Actor presented
Quidoscope Let Him Void You by George Leffert from the
story by Ray Battery. Figures in the cast were Joda
sat As the Captain Leam, Johnny and Lester and John
Alexander and Kellen.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Your host was Norman Rose,
Adventures in time and space transcribed in Future People. Then
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publishers of astounding science fiction, bring you Dimension.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Ex A rocket go through space like a silver fish
in an endless tank of starred and black velocity.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Swirling by insider case.
Speaker 4 (01:00):
These finance expects of humanity.
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Control the tremendous.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Power that impelled her so relentlessly toward the other galaxies.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Who were these men?
Speaker 4 (01:10):
What mad fantastic need and desire that caused.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Them to abandon mother Earth and adventure to the ends
of the universe?
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Captain House, what is it?
Speaker 4 (01:21):
Stone?
Speaker 6 (01:21):
Magnetic storm? And get aheads her and the aperture about one.
Speaker 7 (01:24):
Hundred mile gap between them and sir, but shifting rapidly.
Speaker 6 (01:27):
Switch on the radar screen.
Speaker 8 (01:28):
Let's have a little better. They are asteroids in the cabin.
I see that, Thank your stone, Sir?
Speaker 4 (01:40):
What any changing course?
Speaker 6 (01:42):
What for the stamps?
Speaker 4 (01:44):
If I decided to change course? Sty, issue the order
the right word porting, It'll be great? Is your order?
That's the stone?
Speaker 5 (01:51):
Do I need to remind you who's master of this ship?
Speaker 8 (01:53):
Looks there are twenty five other lives to be considered
beside the run souse.
Speaker 7 (01:57):
That's the right shift that our court at enough, it's
not enough, captain, return to your post.
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Captain, for God's sake, don't be bigheaded about this.
Speaker 4 (02:06):
There's a magnetic storm.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
Get ahead.
Speaker 7 (02:08):
Are you going to risk the lives of all of
us just so.
Speaker 9 (02:10):
You can hang your head on some wealthy get the
planetary rapid.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
We know this means a lot to you.
Speaker 7 (02:16):
Sure you can be fleet admiral.
Speaker 10 (02:17):
I can be those asiatic ships to Venus.
Speaker 6 (02:19):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (02:21):
We value all.
Speaker 8 (02:22):
I happen to value my life just as much as
any man about this craft, mister Stone.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But I wasn't brought up to be a lily livered
dead nothing.
Speaker 8 (02:31):
I'll get back to your post or i'll have your
court martials. Well, mister Stone, Okay, okay, what mister Stone?
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Okay, sir him kid in young, Maybe he's right with us.
You stick to.
Speaker 8 (02:52):
Being ship stopped. You're good, advance. I'll navigate this, you.
Speaker 3 (02:56):
Know, the captain, Bly, I hate to pile up on
some little.
Speaker 6 (02:59):
Ass, so especially when a.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
Simple thing like changing the colimple things do you know
what it changed in chorus would mean the slightest deflection
would throw us a million miles off. At this speed,
it takes days to get back on the vector.
Speaker 5 (03:16):
By that time, one of.
Speaker 8 (03:17):
The Asiatic ships would have landed on Venus and claimed
the whole blasted planet.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
But in the race charms.
Speaker 11 (03:24):
You know, I suppose they did claim Via there's nothing
but rocks and jungle.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Anyway, This isn't that the idea of someone beating it in?
Speaker 8 (03:32):
Know, Louis, I always get a little bit gitterly when
men are willing to die.
Speaker 5 (03:36):
The symbols.
Speaker 6 (03:40):
Get mollish, get lallish. Why is it lester the falling off?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Get what.
Speaker 7 (03:50):
Good law?
Speaker 8 (03:50):
The whole blasted storm and shift it down as it
don't hire up your starboards, tigers on.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
You can't make it in time.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
Listen that laid our bouts shut up. I'll hear this,
now hear this addition, red passing up? Thank you? Oh
I over the vision chamber, imagend be black.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I know we did it up. You ain't gonna make it.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
We've got to make it over.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
So I decided to ship for your shut up.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
It doesn't sound good.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
With us another five seconds or.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
Three two wants to me.
Speaker 12 (04:39):
You're like, but god, look god, oh oh, anyway, can
you hear me. I can see your footing off there.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
Can you hear me?
Speaker 13 (04:56):
I got say, I tell your cat up.
Speaker 8 (04:58):
I don't want to just hold on a Stone. Is
that you? Captain Hollis what we struck? An asteroid ship
blew up?
Speaker 6 (05:09):
Anybody else alive?
Speaker 4 (05:10):
I don't know. I can see some space utes floating
in space.
Speaker 6 (05:14):
Not far from me, but I don't know if they're alive.
Speaker 13 (05:17):
Maybe they just don't hear us.
Speaker 5 (05:19):
The radios are working, they do.
Speaker 11 (05:21):
Hello, somebody that is that you Lewis?
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Yes, thank god?
Speaker 13 (05:30):
Anybody else alive?
Speaker 4 (05:32):
Stone? Oh?
Speaker 6 (05:34):
Oh?
Speaker 12 (05:35):
Are you all right?
Speaker 4 (05:36):
Okay, so far that's three of us anyway.
Speaker 12 (05:40):
Yes, we see them moving away from each other.
Speaker 10 (05:44):
That's right.
Speaker 13 (05:46):
I can hardly see you know.
Speaker 5 (05:47):
It's the momentum.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
We're all thrown in different directions. If there's no friction,
we'll pick.
Speaker 8 (05:53):
Up speed and there's some way we could stick together,
at least I'm afraid not.
Speaker 13 (05:59):
If there's no friction, then there's nothing to stop us.
Speaker 10 (06:03):
That's right, Stone, But then we'll we'll just keep fun forever.
Speaker 8 (06:07):
Not forever, you'll fall until you get into one of
the gravitational fields of some planet.
Speaker 4 (06:14):
After that, you'll fall toward.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
The planet whether in heaven want a way to die.
Speaker 8 (06:20):
Nobody's going to die. Those Asiatic ships will be along
this way. We can radio to them when they get
in range.
Speaker 13 (06:27):
Aren't you forgetting something?
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Lewis? What's that?
Speaker 11 (06:30):
The commanders of those other ships may I'll be quite
willing to run through a magnetic storm.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
They may have all in court.
Speaker 13 (06:37):
If they have, they won't come with it a million.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Miles of us. Well that's they got chances on that.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
It's a long way down, a long long way down.
Speaker 6 (06:48):
Talk of that kind of stone. I don't want to
die stone at the tenant patch stop.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Why you heard me? This is a bukeny of one.
Speaker 10 (06:57):
Don't your ek on me down because you'll.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
Be ten some miles away in another hour. Oh help me.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Caught Marshalls one may have picked up.
Speaker 7 (07:04):
It's not kid myself.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
Nobody's going to be picked up.
Speaker 10 (07:08):
I've got a few things to get off my chest
before we lose contact.
Speaker 7 (07:11):
With each other.
Speaker 10 (07:13):
Oh thanks, your ship was a bad ship and you
were a bad captain.
Speaker 9 (07:20):
I hope you'll break when you hit them. O.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Thanks for the good will.
Speaker 10 (07:24):
So that isn't all I believe there are different kinds
of death. Captain tuns are different kinds of lives.
Speaker 13 (07:32):
Yours should be pretty interesting.
Speaker 10 (07:34):
Because you've been different years.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Oh when was the last time.
Speaker 5 (07:37):
You had an honest, human.
Speaker 13 (07:38):
Feeling, Captain, I'll bet you don't even remember when.
Speaker 9 (07:43):
I don't think.
Speaker 10 (07:44):
You're capable of any kind of strong feeling. Do you
have a wife, Keptain, I'll bet she won't miss you
one bit.
Speaker 6 (07:52):
Children, I have a son, little boy. Maybe he'll grow
up to be a hero like his daddy, But a
hero with.
Speaker 10 (08:00):
A piece of stone or other than that, heint.
Speaker 4 (08:03):
Are you quite finished?
Speaker 6 (08:06):
I've said it.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
So long time.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I'm headed for the sun.
Speaker 10 (08:14):
Somehow, I don't like the idea of falling into the sun.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
I'm going to take a quicker way out.
Speaker 12 (08:19):
No, Stone, don't be a fool to spe.
Speaker 9 (08:22):
On my helmet and let the extant escape.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Stone, don't do it.
Speaker 6 (08:24):
We're going to be rescued.
Speaker 10 (08:26):
Stone, see you out in some other universe.
Speaker 8 (08:29):
God, he was headed for the Sun. I can barely
see him now.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Look like curd for me?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
How about you?
Speaker 5 (08:40):
I'm headed for.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Funny, isn't it?
Speaker 8 (08:46):
And I should be going back to Mother Earth this way,
I'm nothing but a human media child.
Speaker 6 (08:54):
When I hit deers at the fere I will burn
like a match. Oh, Charles, Charles, can you still hear me?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
I can hear you getting fainted?
Speaker 11 (09:16):
Now we must be several thousand miles apart.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
We should be able to talk for another twenty minutes
or so at the speed by falling away from each other.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
What are you thinking about? Willis?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
I was thinking about Stone What.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He said, don't let it get you know? No way?
Speaker 7 (09:35):
He was right.
Speaker 13 (09:36):
He was inane.
Speaker 11 (09:38):
Shock knocked him off ballon.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
No.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Each of us dies in a different way.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Each of us has his own life to look back of.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Huh. I don't know, I said, let's square.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
I don't think so. It's possible to sustend the radio.
Speaker 8 (10:10):
It's working up the receiving unit of damage.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Stuff to keep up.
Speaker 8 (10:17):
Right.
Speaker 13 (10:22):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I don't know anybody alive? Is it engineers?
Speaker 11 (10:26):
Like?
Speaker 3 (10:28):
I don't know?
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Mother, I say, somebody that's also a lea?
Speaker 13 (10:35):
Can you heverybody? You can hear me?
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Like Eddy, listen, we had an accident.
Speaker 13 (10:44):
Wall Oh, what's see you?
Speaker 4 (10:47):
He doesn't even know we can hear him.
Speaker 13 (10:48):
What devil may have forgot to switch on his receiving unit.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
Well, there are three of us again anyway.
Speaker 13 (10:53):
Yeah, it's much comfort. Maybe maybe it's still is best.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
It will be a four cool. I'm going to be
picked up.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I uh, they must, I must.
Speaker 7 (11:06):
I had too much to accomplish.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
In life to die like this fellow, like Stone un
Lester become a diamond dozen.
Speaker 5 (11:14):
If I was in line to the commander.
Speaker 4 (11:16):
Of the whole fleet, you know that means.
Speaker 6 (11:19):
Child, the madener of the heavy sphere. No, I don't
know what it means.
Speaker 11 (11:25):
I never wanted to be commander of anything but myself,
and I never even came close to that.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
Helen was counting on her. Stevie too in his own
little way, and harder for Helen.
Speaker 13 (11:35):
Peeley's too young to understand.
Speaker 4 (11:36):
He'll know.
Speaker 8 (11:38):
He'll know his daddy went out with a ship like
a man. They'll give him a medal.
Speaker 11 (11:47):
So if I'm beginning to think that maybe Stone was
right about you, huh what.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Do you mean?
Speaker 6 (11:54):
Oh?
Speaker 13 (11:54):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (11:54):
No, No, Charles, I wanna know.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
We've shipped together a good many years.
Speaker 8 (12:01):
You never told me what you really think it means,
whether or not you then did my success.
Speaker 6 (12:06):
I'd like to know. Now we have nothing to do
but talk.
Speaker 4 (12:10):
Anyway.
Speaker 11 (12:11):
I have never ended anything except the fact that you're
falling back.
Speaker 13 (12:14):
To where it's Lewis, I've admired who I admired of,
some sort of perfect machine. But that's where it stopped.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You know the trouble with you, Lewis.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Well you can't cry.
Speaker 7 (12:27):
But you can't cry.
Speaker 6 (12:30):
But men don't cry, only children.
Speaker 13 (12:32):
That's what I mean, Lewis, you can't cry.
Speaker 4 (12:35):
I don't know what the devil you're babbling about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
Uh, skip it none, I'll look here.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
There's one thing on law.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
Why the wife on jupibore w the wop on boom wow?
Speaker 4 (12:48):
What's he babbling about?
Speaker 6 (12:50):
I don't know. He seems to be rising about his
life all.
Speaker 13 (12:56):
Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 9 (12:58):
Abody and their mothers or rock. See like fifteen years
and you still look.
Speaker 13 (13:03):
Like a school girl. Oh he's a boy too.
Speaker 6 (13:09):
Oh a doing now? Oh hoches art and so on?
That I the one hook the boys.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
What they says, my son, they go carry on, don't
get fresh with the girls. It suddenly if you don't
one get me and fling it when he smile of
his and say why daddy, they carry a call back?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Well, oh on this you tell much?
Speaker 9 (13:34):
Oh well, lad they listen.
Speaker 13 (13:35):
You can't complain you've had the best of it and
some to spare.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
Mm uhh simple so one too simple?
Speaker 4 (13:43):
Really?
Speaker 11 (13:44):
Why because he has oh, let's hang on to uh
woman always right for me, and ran always wanting them,
and jellous the men like less of having them, and
jelous something for being able to spend money without fear.
And what as much happened that he could have in
his own wild way? Haven't you ever wanted that?
Speaker 4 (14:04):
Don't be a.
Speaker 5 (14:04):
Fool, never been that.
Speaker 13 (14:06):
The lesters that he lives.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
In the present.
Speaker 13 (14:09):
He gets into the experience of the moment. You and
I Lois we live enough past and in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
But never in the press could he changed the subject.
I thought you wanted to talk.
Speaker 6 (14:19):
Well, let's talk about something else, chard charg cheg Are
you there, Joe?
Speaker 12 (14:35):
That's to me.
Speaker 13 (14:36):
I just switched to my uxitary battery.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
I'm sorry, but don't don't do that.
Speaker 8 (14:42):
Afraid to be alone, I've never been afraid of anything
in my life. But you know it, I wonder, Oh,
why doesn't he shut up?
Speaker 13 (14:57):
Really? What I have been having a media's warm some
little asteroid it is.
Speaker 11 (15:04):
I think it's that glad to go down past now?
Then slings in Dorset for every five years.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
I'm right in the middle of it now, like a big.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
Kaleidoscope, all kinds of colors and shapes and sighters.
Speaker 12 (15:20):
God is pared up all that memo.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'm going with them.
Speaker 12 (15:25):
They take me with them, They'll.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
Have me dog on.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Remember when you.
Speaker 11 (15:30):
Were kid, Lewis telling kaleidoscope, your eyes.
Speaker 12 (15:33):
Gave it a twelve.
Speaker 9 (15:35):
That's what I'm part of.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
Now keep talking.
Speaker 6 (15:37):
I can barely hear you.
Speaker 12 (15:38):
Now you're taking me off.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Lewis jobs charge.
Speaker 7 (15:43):
Don't leave me alone like this job job. Listen, listen,
(16:08):
can you hear me?
Speaker 13 (16:10):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:15):
Gambled away?
Speaker 7 (16:17):
God, why don't you shut out?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
There was a time love all.
Speaker 8 (16:22):
God, I'll get Wait, it's all over, Lester, just as
if it never happened.
Speaker 13 (16:26):
And Annie, you don't regret.
Speaker 7 (16:29):
Really, what good does it do?
Speaker 5 (16:30):
You're your fool one. The thing's over. It's not good anymore.
You're no better off than me.
Speaker 7 (16:36):
Look at what I've accomplished.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
Rock you floating there languishing over some skinny, misforgotten flood.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Of a wife.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
My wife is beautiful, I understand, beautiful, like marble, Like marbles.
Speaker 13 (16:53):
You'll find yourself another man shall good time, No.
Speaker 4 (16:58):
She won't be faithful to my memory, Helen.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Helen, you will be faithful, won't you?
Speaker 7 (17:05):
You never forget me?
Speaker 6 (17:10):
I will.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
I w up my radio.
Speaker 4 (17:20):
There, say that's better.
Speaker 6 (17:26):
You're alone now, Captain Hollis, alone with yourself.
Speaker 4 (17:33):
And your thoughts.
Speaker 5 (17:35):
And your memories, going back towards.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Like a human rocket.
Speaker 5 (17:44):
And remembering.
Speaker 4 (17:54):
Yes, Helen, it's me.
Speaker 8 (17:56):
I have you, but I thought, I mean well, I
forgot about that. I had some trouble, Helen.
Speaker 5 (18:07):
We won't talk about it.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Your home now.
Speaker 14 (18:10):
That's the important thing, Stevie, is the tide right here.
Speaker 12 (18:15):
Stevie Stee, Steve Stee, Hello, son, you're going to see
this time like today, You're going to stay alone.
Speaker 6 (18:23):
We'll go and please again just like you.
Speaker 13 (18:26):
Well, Stevie, I'm kind of all different coming.
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Would you like to see him?
Speaker 11 (18:33):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (18:34):
I would.
Speaker 5 (18:37):
Go away, down, I won't.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
I won't go away.
Speaker 5 (18:42):
He's quite a little guy, mate.
Speaker 14 (18:45):
I'm glad you're finally getting together with him.
Speaker 4 (18:49):
What do you mean, Helen, you've always been.
Speaker 12 (18:51):
So well, it's coming.
Speaker 14 (18:55):
Steps a little preacher on the other one from your
really was just a little astaction and respectuous, just a.
Speaker 12 (19:03):
Little respect of the things he's wanted.
Speaker 4 (19:06):
I've been a good father.
Speaker 6 (19:09):
Nobody can ever say I haven't been a good father.
Speaker 12 (19:13):
Certainly not to you, not after what happened. Don't get
defensive to a plea that kind of bring.
Speaker 8 (19:20):
I've given him everything a boy should have, boys, boxing love,
I've taught him to hunt and take care of himself.
Speaker 10 (19:28):
Yeah he's got all those.
Speaker 3 (19:29):
Well, then.
Speaker 6 (19:32):
Well don't come.
Speaker 13 (19:34):
When he's come to you.
Speaker 7 (19:36):
He alone.
Speaker 12 (19:39):
He wants you to put your arms around him and reassure.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Him that he's going to be a man. I don't
want him to be taught.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
What is it?
Speaker 12 (19:47):
What is there about being tall?
Speaker 6 (19:49):
And you?
Speaker 2 (19:51):
Christ?
Speaker 8 (19:52):
I don't start that business again, will you.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
I understand what you're trying to do.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Go like all of them.
Speaker 5 (20:01):
I want to make you a woman like them.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
I want to drain you of your manhood so they
can control you, manipulate you.
Speaker 13 (20:09):
You won't have when you won't me.
Speaker 14 (20:12):
Or anybody else, including yourself.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Now you're talking, we let walk between us, do and
stop this time.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
I have no plad When you came back, we get
out of the beach, and.
Speaker 14 (20:24):
Then the spot where we used to swim, and the
moti you can see the water or over the brain
and then we can have picnics uPAR there, just you
and Celi and me.
Speaker 12 (20:36):
Stevie can sleep on the planket.
Speaker 13 (20:38):
We could go for a swim.
Speaker 14 (20:41):
Maybe maybe we could recapture Tord.
Speaker 12 (20:46):
It wasn't away, maybe if we went back.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
I'm sorry, Helen, I'd like to really, but h well.
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I'm shipping out tonight. Tonight I've got a new command viewership,
having lunch.
Speaker 7 (21:02):
With the admirals at that noon.
Speaker 4 (21:06):
This is an important thing, Helen. This is the most
important thing.
Speaker 6 (21:10):
That ever happened to me.
Speaker 4 (21:14):
You don't get a chance of being fleet commander every day.
Speaker 6 (21:17):
You can go for a swim anytime.
Speaker 13 (21:20):
Yeah, we never do.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Hello, Honey.
Speaker 6 (21:23):
Ever since I was a cadet, I've been pointing toward
this job.
Speaker 4 (21:27):
It's a big.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
If I'm a success with the nav, your own ticket,
big house up in Connecticut, chauffeur, find.
Speaker 7 (21:36):
A school for Steve. I want you don't be unreasonable.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
I don't I don't understand.
Speaker 13 (21:45):
No, I don't suppose you ever will.
Speaker 7 (21:46):
Let the quarrel. Why do we always have a quarreling? Well,
it's almost time now.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Try what's on?
Speaker 8 (22:01):
Why Helen, say goodbye to the boy, right, good gosh, Helen.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Where are you, Helen?
Speaker 3 (22:21):
Helen?
Speaker 8 (22:24):
Huh oh no, I must be going out of my mind.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
The whole thing was nothing but a dream.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
Only I.
Speaker 5 (22:37):
Had someone to talk to, Alice that you Lessen.
Speaker 6 (22:43):
No, it's just another part of the same night there come.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Why must I be tortured like this?
Speaker 6 (22:50):
Ellen?
Speaker 13 (22:50):
Thank god, sir, I I found it too loose in
this receiver.
Speaker 9 (22:54):
Uh, I can hear you talking to.
Speaker 5 (22:56):
Yourself, less her, let's us meal you, yes, sir.
Speaker 13 (23:00):
Thank Kevin's captain.
Speaker 6 (23:01):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Any of the others can at all?
Speaker 7 (23:04):
Staring much of the sun.
Speaker 5 (23:05):
Doctor Carter went off with a media swam.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
The others are scattered all over the universe by now.
I've had it right for a I'll be in the
orbit soon.
Speaker 13 (23:12):
Like good d your voice, sir, I was going sang
all by myself here.
Speaker 9 (23:16):
Seems like I've been singing and talking the.
Speaker 6 (23:18):
Old bloody night.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
Well you heard you.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
I'm glad we can reach one.
Speaker 3 (23:22):
Oh me too, sir? Are you really glad?
Speaker 9 (23:24):
Lester?
Speaker 8 (23:25):
I should think you hate and despise me. Why, Sir,
I could have saved the sword by changing course?
Speaker 5 (23:32):
Well?
Speaker 3 (23:32):
Uh, the way I.
Speaker 9 (23:33):
See you, Captain, you did what you believed him that's
the way each other us has to do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
Thank you, Lester.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
How long you'll figure we got, sir?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Not long.
Speaker 4 (23:41):
I'm afraid at least not me.
Speaker 13 (23:43):
That's a terrible thing, any captain.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
I mean, knowing you're gonna.
Speaker 13 (23:46):
Die, and not for being able to do anything.
Speaker 5 (23:49):
At least you've got pleasant memories.
Speaker 3 (23:51):
Me said, no, I never mind do a hell of things.
Speaker 13 (23:56):
I should think you would have some good thoughts to
remember yourself.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Alright, I never lived Leicester. Y, It's true. I never lived.
Speaker 4 (24:05):
Hure why we were strangers? We never knew each other.
Speaker 7 (24:08):
Uh huh that soun Leicester.
Speaker 8 (24:10):
Would you believe it if I told you I'd never
put my arms around the boy and let him know
how much I loved to Oh what a thought of.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Beliefs, sir, It's true.
Speaker 13 (24:20):
It's odd the you ta art and kept.
Speaker 12 (24:23):
Oh whatever I do, your position you would come.
Speaker 13 (24:26):
Out of eh.
Speaker 6 (24:27):
I thought so too, But I know better now. My
whole life was nothing but her running away from my
own feelings. I had everything I really wanted.
Speaker 4 (24:34):
All I had to do was reach out my hand.
Speaker 8 (24:36):
There was Helen Stevie pleasures, and I turned my back
and looked at the stars when they came to me,
filled with their love and their warmth.
Speaker 6 (24:45):
I ran, I fled to the stars and to the
ends of the universe.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
It was all so wrong.
Speaker 5 (24:51):
Other things like that happened to us, Leicester.
Speaker 6 (24:53):
I don't know, sir.
Speaker 4 (24:54):
We were going to be divorced, Helen and I.
Speaker 8 (24:56):
Oh stupid, idiotic.
Speaker 13 (24:59):
Oh I you'll be picked up, cap.
Speaker 6 (25:01):
They got the spaceships.
Speaker 5 (25:03):
Take me off from Earth, maybe one.
Speaker 13 (25:05):
I'll wake you before you hit.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
The atmosphere there to hope we aren't that lucky letter.
Speaker 6 (25:11):
Then you get a second chance.
Speaker 3 (25:13):
I can see you now, Lester.
Speaker 4 (25:14):
But the earth, big and green and rich, will be
more than a few minutes at this rate. Oh there
was something, Yes.
Speaker 7 (25:26):
Feel the friction starting now.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
I'll burn in a minute. I'll be scattered like ashes
all across the land.
Speaker 4 (25:32):
Funny.
Speaker 6 (25:32):
That's a useful act, isn't it, to help other things grow?
Speaker 12 (25:34):
I don't talk like that.
Speaker 5 (25:36):
I'm sorry, Lester, You're a good man.
Speaker 7 (25:37):
I hope they rest to you. Maybe, Lester, maybe I am.
Speaker 12 (25:41):
After all, he's got a twist high that's all.
Speaker 13 (25:46):
It wasn't my.
Speaker 7 (25:47):
Blame, Bunny Cat.
Speaker 6 (25:49):
I feel a sense of calm now, almost relief.
Speaker 7 (25:53):
If you ever get out of a cold shower and
feel like.
Speaker 13 (25:55):
A new man, clean and ready for breakfast in a
new day.
Speaker 7 (26:00):
I have a feeling like that. It's a beautiful but
good to go home. I wonder if anyone won't see me, Papa?
Speaker 5 (26:14):
Oh but.
Speaker 13 (26:37):
Why didn't come down to the beach tonight?
Speaker 3 (26:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 13 (26:43):
I just wanted to see the ocean.
Speaker 2 (26:44):
Die.
Speaker 6 (26:46):
Are you cold?
Speaker 3 (26:47):
You know?
Speaker 6 (26:50):
Mom?
Speaker 13 (26:51):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (26:52):
Die?
Speaker 5 (26:53):
When's dad come back? I don't know, Steve, I don't no.
Speaker 6 (27:02):
Oh what's the matter between you and dad?
Speaker 7 (27:08):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (27:09):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (27:11):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (27:11):
You'd understand.
Speaker 13 (27:13):
Don't you love each other?
Speaker 6 (27:16):
I suppose in the way we do it used to
be quite different.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
It was long ago when you were a tiny, tiny baby.
Speaker 6 (27:26):
Your father and I used to come down here and
swim at night. I was the first girl he ever loved.
And remember somehow.
Speaker 5 (27:37):
Something happened, he.
Speaker 6 (27:39):
Got frightened or something, and we sort of lost each other. Oh,
come here, Steve, what's wrong? Huh?
Speaker 4 (27:49):
I step you're a little child.
Speaker 6 (27:52):
Perhaps we better be getting back. It's so much your bedtime.
Oh kayma, No, look at that A feeling start?
Speaker 14 (28:00):
Yes, I said, it's a.
Speaker 9 (28:01):
Right to swift.
Speaker 6 (28:02):
Did you see it? Move?
Speaker 12 (28:03):
A falling start?
Speaker 9 (28:06):
Make a Wish, Make a Wish.
Speaker 15 (28:26):
You've just heard another adventure into the unknown world of
the future.
Speaker 6 (28:30):
A world of.
Speaker 15 (28:33):
The National Actor presented Transcribe each week by the National
Broadcasting Coming Age in cooperation with Vegan Smith, publishers of
(28:54):
the magazine Astounding Science Fiction Today, the Mention Actor presented
Quidoscope Let Him Void You by George Leffert from the
story by Ray Battery. Figures in the cast were Joda
sat As the Captain Leam, Johnny and Lester and John
Alexander and Kellen.
Speaker 3 (29:15):
Your host was Norman Rose,
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