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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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and this is Waldrolle Keith. Nightline invites you to listen
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
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minus one Fire From the far horizons of the unknown
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come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These
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(01:43):
But first hear this now X minus one our story
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Speaker 2 (02:07):
My name is Norman Blake, Statistician, first class. At two
thirty pm on Monday October twenty first in the year
two thousand and fifty five, I became a deviant. I
left my job an hour early. To deviate from the
norm was unheard of in a perfectly adjusted society such
as ours. Thanks to the great psychologist Kinder, we had
(02:28):
a society where everybody's job suited as talents and needs,
where children were raised scientifically and where everyone lived happily
on an even keel instead of swinging back and forth
from gloom to ecstasy. Then I noticed it, the single
flaw in the perfect system.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I mean, yes, nom Henry, I'd like to talk to
you for a moment up privately. I closed the door.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's rather unusual for me to see one of my
statisticians privately, But since we're all there, something rather serious
has come up.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh, as you know, my duty is to check the
computers to make certain there are no deviation. Yes, this
morning I ran over the figures for our district. Here
is the sheet. The deviation is near the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
One million thirty seven gallons of water purified, one million
thirty seven gallons consume nine three hundred twenty eight births,
nine three hundred twenty eight deaths. I see nothing wrong
so far. I read the next item, one candy bar
taken from baby. Well, don't you see a baby can't consent,
(03:36):
Therefore it must have been taken without consent, Henry.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That is theft. We haven't had a case of theft
in this society for almost twenty nine years. I see.
It's got me so upset. I can't think of anything else.
You're a little leggy, aren't you. Who wouldn't you be.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
If you knew there was an anti social beam walking
the street of your own city.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't think I quite go to pieces like that.
Maybe what they says justice the guest, and maybe ought
to see an analyst. Perhaps it would help you deal
with this problem.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've been analyzed how long ago? Eight years?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, unless you're prepared to handle this problem, I'd advise
you to get some help, and meanwhile, take the rest
of the afternoon off.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Ow dB eight from the schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
As director and as an old friend of yours, I
order it. I consider you to be in extreme upset.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's your order, that's my order. I must confess that
as I went toward the elevator, a line kept running
through my head. Norm has departed from the norm. I
(04:43):
was doing something unorthodox, and what frightened me was it?
Actually it amused me. Here I was leaving work one
hour early. I was so preoccupied that I stepped from
the elevator without noticing that someone was already in it.
An invasion of privacy almost unforgivable. He was a small,
strange looking man with short silver hair and thick round glasses.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oops, I beg your pardon. I didn't really know you
were perfectly all right. Strings. I'll just step out and
his folded brother. You've got trouble. I can see well.
I've My advice to you is see an analyst. Don't
wait another twenty four hours. I thank you for the advice.
That's more than advice. Other it's a commercial. Here's my card,
(05:30):
Andrew ce Rednick public analyst. Oh you're an analyst free lance.
I didn't know there were any. I'm probably one of
the few still practicing. My slogan is, don't kid with
your kid. If I pain't, Andy, come see Andy. I
may be up to see you. You will, I can tell.
(05:58):
I on my public face asked.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We were on the street and rode home in the
proper manner, my arms and hands folded. When I got home,
my wife Nata was in her room.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I signaled on the intercom in case she was entertaining.
She wasn't. She never did.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sometimes I wondered if Nata was quite normal and well adjusted. Hello, Darling,
it's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Why you hold it really? I just uncovered a crime wave.
A crime wave affect candy from a baby.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Who is that serious?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It threatens the entire structure of our society. We have
a delicately balanced mechanism here. We're not ready for crime.
We don't even know how to catch a criminal.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Lis Marinhel was saying, it takes a thief to catch
a thief.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It, darling, that's it. That's the answer to our problem.
What is in order to protect society? I've got to
catch the.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Thief, and the only way to do it, obviously, is
to become one myself.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You're listening to Slana Tonight's attraction on X minus one.
Now back to X minus one and Selana.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The address on the card was a deserted skyscraper, a
pre analytic building. The elevators were out of order, and
I had to climbed twenty nine lights of stairs. Finally,
I wheezed in front of a door that read Andrew C. Rednick,
public analyst.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Grin and come in, Oh, mister Rednick, it ain't banda
class ruther. Ooh you wouldn't remember park your eagle? Now, boy,
what's your problem. I've got to do something and it
isn't in my psychological profile. That's the trouble with this society.
(08:10):
Nobody's capable of handling the unexpected. Are you saying there's
an advantage to being unadjusted? Don't second guess the analyst boy.
If you mean by advantage, will you be happier? No?
But if you mean power, then you've got it. In
a country of normal people, the neurotic man is king.
(08:31):
You want to be a king? Boy? Of course not.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm perfectly happy and well adjusted, except for one little problem, namely,
I've got to catch.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A thief, so so I've.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Got to know how a thief thinks and fields of
what he does, where he goes. You mean you wanted
become New Rocky exactly? This is a rather unorthodox request.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I suppose it is. I could lose my license if
anyone found out. If you don't do it, it could
mean the end of society and civilization. As bad as that. Eh,
very well, I'll do it. Can we start at once?
Why not sit at my desk while I lie down
on the couch and tell you about my childhood? You
lie down, I'm the one that's supposed to lie down.
(09:14):
You forget this is reversed analysis. I'm supposed to make
you eurotic prostrated. Now, then the first thing I remember
was an argument between my father and mother. You are
living with your own father and mother. Ooh, how unhygienic.
What a nasty situation. You aren't very good at this
(09:35):
sort of thing, are you. Boy. You're supposed to listen,
not comment. Now. Then, when I was twenty seven, I've
perfected the analysis and revolutionize society. What are you talking about?
Kinder perfected analysis and revolutionized society, he died. Don't second
against the analyst. You know I'm beginning to dislike you already. Fine,
(09:59):
we're making progress already, you're beginning to experience dislight. Next,
we've achieved hatred and then loathing. In three weeks, you'll
be well on the road to becoming a crook.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Every day for the next week, Red Nick lay comfortably
on his red leather couch, rambling about his childhood and
his problems, while I.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Longed to tell him about my own.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I grew more and more repressed, and my disposition became
worse and worse. On the eighth day, something happened at
the office that made me realize I had to hurry.
I mean, Henry, it's happened. What the thief is struck again?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
But this time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's even more serious. What did he take? A million
dollars is missing from the first district bank, Great Scott.
We got to find the seat, Henry. We're doomed if
we don't.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Maybe he's worked out his repressions, after all, What can
a man steal after he stolen a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't know, but I intend to find it out.
Maybe you ought to drop it now. How can you
say a thing like that? It's positively antisocial. I'm down now,
you're all upsetting games.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why don't you take the day off and go home,
spend some time with that lovely wife of yours.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
She misses you. How do you know? No?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And boy, do I take the note of jealousy. You'd
better watch your step. Jealousy is a poor runner of viagins.
Are you seeing an anilyst as I suggested, Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well keep at it.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
By you're in bad hate.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I kept at it. By the time the annual status
examinations were due, I was a complete wreck. I hated
and grew rednick with a passion. I was ambitious and jealous.
I had even sunk to that basis of all passions.
I had fallen in love with my own wife.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And still I had not been able to carrot out
the thief had not struck again.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Ah, you're early done, so I'm early. You'll have to wait.
I have another patient. What you'll have to wait? I
have another patient in the other room. He'll be leaving
in a Minute's get done, another patient. I could have
killed him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Never occurred to me that Andrew c Redmick would have
another patient. After a few moments, a man emerged from
the inner office.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He was wearing a silver mask or public face, and
naturally I couldn't see his features as I had my
own mask on. He didn't see my features either, but
I sensed a certain hostility as he brushed by me.
Come in done? Who is he? Take it easy. We
don't reveal the names or identities of patient. I hate him.
(12:47):
You're jealous. Jealous. As a matter of fact, I've been
thinking of quitting the analysis. Good. This is your last
session anyway, last session, but it can't be. The annual
examinations are coming up Tomorrowye, I'm not ready. I'll be
demoted to a menial job. I doubt it. I told
you I'm not ready. What can I do? Have you
(13:07):
ever thought of cheating. Oh, on the examination. That's horrible.
Only a monster could suggest such a thing. What kind
of man are you? Who are you? Rednick? Let me
close the door. Now look through the glass at my side.
(13:29):
You can read it backward with the door closed, Andrew Rednick,
Rednick backward, kinder you It's impossible. He's the founder of
our whole society. Besides, he's dead. He died in an accident.
Or stay. I've just decided to stop out because my
(13:50):
friend I found I had created a Frankenstein, a perfect society.
It was like Paradise, a garden of Eden, the same
silly people, happy, not wanting anything, not going any place,
and not changing. So I decided to create a little
thin and thereby give the creatures change, growth, misery, ecstasy,
(14:15):
and free will. In a sense, I made them creating
well Son au revoirs. But am I really finished? You're
just beginning. Your frustrations are like rabbits, boy, they just
keep breathing. I'm the one who's Steve.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He clapped his hat on his head and walked out,
leaving me alone in his office. When I walked over
to his desk, I found a gun lying on top
of it. I put it in my pocket and returned
to my office. The next five hours were spent in
statistically predicting the questions I would be asked on the
annual examination, and.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
In finding out the answers in advance. Then I went home, Darling,
how did it go? Nada. Take a good look at
your husband. See anything different.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, I've been noticing a change for the past few weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You're going to notice a much bigger change, sweetheart. Tomorrow
the new appointments will be made based on the results
of the annual examination.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Did you do well? Hmmm? Did I do well? Read
this card?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Then colosed card has a magnetic reproduction of your new
psychological profile. It indicates you are in the ninety nine
percentile of leadership, with the second highest altruism rating ever stored. Therefore,
a new position has been created for you. Beginning tomorrow,
you will be Deputy mayor of the district. Deputy Darling,
(15:47):
It's wonderful, yes, I dare say.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It is only one thing troubles me with that. I
can't understand how anybody scored higher than I did. I'd
counted on the coming.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The following day, I reported to the office of the
new mayor of our district, the only person who had
scored higher than I on the annual examination. I was
ushered impromptly. The new mayor was seated behind a huge desk.
He wore his public face mask. Mister Mayor, I'm Norman Blake,
(16:23):
the new deputy.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, we've met, you know. Oh, I'm afraid I let
me remove my public face there, Henry Henry Foreman. I'm
amazed you didn't guess sooner. How quite simple. You and
idea fellow have unstable patterns with me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The first break came the day I took that bar
of candy from the baby as I was passing the
Nestroy my old act frightened me so that I sought
an animist, the same analyst you saw Rednick Rednick Hindre.
It's all the same, and you were the thief and
I never It takes one to no one know.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You cheated on the exam too, using the computer tod
just as you did. Are there any others like us?
I don't know. We find out, though we're ambitious, you
and I.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That means we'd be moving up, heading for the governorship,
perhaps even the presidency, and then we'll collide with the
others if there are any.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
As Rednik said, in a world of normal people, being
neurotic is king. The only trouble with that is there
can only be one king that's right, and only one mayor.
The look he gave me then sent chills up and
on my spine.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
In spite of my high position, I haven't had a
moment's peace or relaxation since neither I suspect as Henry Foreman,
there were imbalances in our world which had to lead
to the destruction of one or all of us, and
we knew it. There was one saying that Rednick Kinder
had forgotten to tack up.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
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and this is Waldrolle Keith. Nightline invites you to listen
in on NBC's.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Award winning science fiction series X minus one.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
Now Escape to a World of the Future dot com
for black Dook X minus five four. Please to X
minus one Fire From the far horizons of the unknown
(01:07):
come tales of new dimensions in time and space. These
are stories of the future adventures in which you'll live
in a million could be years on a thousand Mayvy World.
The National Broadcasting Company, in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
presents X minus one Tonight Selana by James E. Gunn.
(01:43):
But first hear this now X minus one our story
Slama by James E. Gunn.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
My name is Norman Blake, Statistician, first class. At two
thirty pm on Monday October twenty first in the year
two thousand and fifty five, I became a deviant. I
left my job an hour early. To deviate from the
norm was unheard of in a perfectly adjusted society such
as ours. Thanks to the great psychologist Kinder, we had
(02:28):
a society where everybody's job suited as talents and needs,
where children were raised scientifically and where everyone lived happily
on an even keel instead of swinging back and forth
from gloom to ecstasy. Then I noticed it, the single
flaw in the perfect system.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
I mean, yes, nom Henry, I'd like to talk to
you for a moment up privately. I closed the door.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
It's rather unusual for me to see one of my
statisticians privately, But since we're all there, something rather serious
has come up.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
Oh, as you know, my duty is to check the
computers to make certain there are no deviation. Yes, this
morning I ran over the figures for our district. Here
is the sheet. The deviation is near the bottom.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
One million thirty seven gallons of water purified, one million
thirty seven gallons consume nine three hundred twenty eight births,
nine three hundred twenty eight deaths. I see nothing wrong
so far. I read the next item, one candy bar
taken from baby. Well, don't you see a baby can't consent,
(03:36):
Therefore it must have been taken without consent, Henry.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
That is theft. We haven't had a case of theft
in this society for almost twenty nine years. I see.
It's got me so upset. I can't think of anything else.
You're a little leggy, aren't you. Who wouldn't you be.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
If you knew there was an anti social beam walking
the street of your own city.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
I don't think I quite go to pieces like that.
Maybe what they says justice the guest, and maybe ought
to see an analyst. Perhaps it would help you deal
with this problem.
Speaker 1 (04:03):
I've been analyzed how long ago? Eight years?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Well, unless you're prepared to handle this problem, I'd advise
you to get some help, and meanwhile, take the rest
of the afternoon off.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
Ow dB eight from the schedule.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
As director and as an old friend of yours, I
order it. I consider you to be in extreme upset.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
That's your order, that's my order. I must confess that
as I went toward the elevator, a line kept running
through my head. Norm has departed from the norm. I
(04:43):
was doing something unorthodox, and what frightened me was it?
Actually it amused me. Here I was leaving work one
hour early. I was so preoccupied that I stepped from
the elevator without noticing that someone was already in it.
An invasion of privacy almost unforgivable. He was a small,
strange looking man with short silver hair and thick round glasses.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Oops, I beg your pardon. I didn't really know you
were perfectly all right. Strings. I'll just step out and
his folded brother. You've got trouble. I can see well.
I've My advice to you is see an analyst. Don't
wait another twenty four hours. I thank you for the advice.
That's more than advice. Other it's a commercial. Here's my card,
(05:30):
Andrew ce Rednick public analyst. Oh you're an analyst free lance.
I didn't know there were any. I'm probably one of
the few still practicing. My slogan is, don't kid with
your kid. If I pain't, Andy, come see Andy. I
may be up to see you. You will, I can tell.
(05:58):
I on my public face asked.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
We were on the street and rode home in the
proper manner, my arms and hands folded. When I got home,
my wife Nata was in her room.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
I signaled on the intercom in case she was entertaining.
She wasn't. She never did.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
Sometimes I wondered if Nata was quite normal and well adjusted. Hello, Darling,
it's something wrong.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Why you hold it really? I just uncovered a crime wave.
A crime wave affect candy from a baby.
Speaker 4 (06:32):
Who is that serious?
Speaker 1 (06:34):
It threatens the entire structure of our society. We have
a delicately balanced mechanism here. We're not ready for crime.
We don't even know how to catch a criminal.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Lis Marinhel was saying, it takes a thief to catch
a thief.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
It, darling, that's it. That's the answer to our problem.
What is in order to protect society? I've got to
catch the.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Thief, and the only way to do it, obviously, is
to become one myself.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
You're listening to Slana Tonight's attraction on X minus one.
Now back to X minus one and Selana.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
The address on the card was a deserted skyscraper, a
pre analytic building. The elevators were out of order, and
I had to climbed twenty nine lights of stairs. Finally,
I wheezed in front of a door that read Andrew C. Rednick,
public analyst.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Grin and come in, Oh, mister Rednick, it ain't banda
class ruther. Ooh you wouldn't remember park your eagle? Now, boy,
what's your problem. I've got to do something and it
isn't in my psychological profile. That's the trouble with this society.
(08:10):
Nobody's capable of handling the unexpected. Are you saying there's
an advantage to being unadjusted? Don't second guess the analyst boy.
If you mean by advantage, will you be happier? No?
But if you mean power, then you've got it. In
a country of normal people, the neurotic man is king.
(08:31):
You want to be a king? Boy? Of course not.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm perfectly happy and well adjusted, except for one little problem, namely,
I've got to catch.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
A thief, so so I've.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
Got to know how a thief thinks and fields of
what he does, where he goes. You mean you wanted
become New Rocky exactly? This is a rather unorthodox request.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
I suppose it is. I could lose my license if
anyone found out. If you don't do it, it could
mean the end of society and civilization. As bad as that. Eh,
very well, I'll do it. Can we start at once?
Why not sit at my desk while I lie down
on the couch and tell you about my childhood? You
lie down, I'm the one that's supposed to lie down.
(09:14):
You forget this is reversed analysis. I'm supposed to make
you eurotic prostrated. Now, then the first thing I remember
was an argument between my father and mother. You are
living with your own father and mother. Ooh, how unhygienic.
What a nasty situation. You aren't very good at this
(09:35):
sort of thing, are you. Boy. You're supposed to listen,
not comment. Now. Then, when I was twenty seven, I've
perfected the analysis and revolutionize society. What are you talking about?
Kinder perfected analysis and revolutionized society, he died. Don't second
against the analyst. You know I'm beginning to dislike you already. Fine,
(09:59):
we're making progress already, you're beginning to experience dislight. Next,
we've achieved hatred and then loathing. In three weeks, you'll
be well on the road to becoming a crook.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Every day for the next week, Red Nick lay comfortably
on his red leather couch, rambling about his childhood and
his problems, while I.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Longed to tell him about my own.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I grew more and more repressed, and my disposition became
worse and worse. On the eighth day, something happened at
the office that made me realize I had to hurry.
I mean, Henry, it's happened. What the thief is struck again?
Speaker 3 (10:42):
But this time.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
It's even more serious. What did he take? A million
dollars is missing from the first district bank, Great Scott.
We got to find the seat, Henry. We're doomed if
we don't.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Maybe he's worked out his repressions, after all, What can
a man steal after he stolen a million dollars?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I don't know, but I intend to find it out.
Maybe you ought to drop it now. How can you
say a thing like that? It's positively antisocial. I'm down now,
you're all upsetting games.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
Why don't you take the day off and go home,
spend some time with that lovely wife of yours.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
She misses you. How do you know? No?
Speaker 3 (11:16):
And boy, do I take the note of jealousy. You'd
better watch your step. Jealousy is a poor runner of viagins.
Are you seeing an anilyst as I suggested, Yes, I am.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Well keep at it.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
By you're in bad hate.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
I kept at it. By the time the annual status
examinations were due, I was a complete wreck. I hated
and grew rednick with a passion. I was ambitious and jealous.
I had even sunk to that basis of all passions.
I had fallen in love with my own wife.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
And still I had not been able to carrot out
the thief had not struck again.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Ah, you're early done, so I'm early. You'll have to wait.
I have another patient. What you'll have to wait? I
have another patient in the other room. He'll be leaving
in a Minute's get done, another patient. I could have
killed him.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
Never occurred to me that Andrew c Redmick would have
another patient. After a few moments, a man emerged from
the inner office.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
He was wearing a silver mask or public face, and
naturally I couldn't see his features as I had my
own mask on. He didn't see my features either, but
I sensed a certain hostility as he brushed by me.
Come in done? Who is he? Take it easy. We
don't reveal the names or identities of patient. I hate him.
(12:47):
You're jealous. Jealous. As a matter of fact, I've been
thinking of quitting the analysis. Good. This is your last
session anyway, last session, but it can't be. The annual
examinations are coming up Tomorrowye, I'm not ready. I'll be
demoted to a menial job. I doubt it. I told
you I'm not ready. What can I do? Have you
(13:07):
ever thought of cheating. Oh, on the examination. That's horrible.
Only a monster could suggest such a thing. What kind
of man are you? Who are you? Rednick? Let me
close the door. Now look through the glass at my side.
(13:29):
You can read it backward with the door closed, Andrew Rednick,
Rednick backward, kinder you It's impossible. He's the founder of
our whole society. Besides, he's dead. He died in an accident.
Or stay. I've just decided to stop out because my
(13:50):
friend I found I had created a Frankenstein, a perfect society.
It was like Paradise, a garden of Eden, the same
silly people, happy, not wanting anything, not going any place,
and not changing. So I decided to create a little
thin and thereby give the creatures change, growth, misery, ecstasy,
(14:15):
and free will. In a sense, I made them creating
well Son au revoirs. But am I really finished? You're
just beginning. Your frustrations are like rabbits, boy, they just
keep breathing. I'm the one who's Steve.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
He clapped his hat on his head and walked out,
leaving me alone in his office. When I walked over
to his desk, I found a gun lying on top
of it. I put it in my pocket and returned
to my office. The next five hours were spent in
statistically predicting the questions I would be asked on the
annual examination, and.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
In finding out the answers in advance. Then I went home, Darling,
how did it go? Nada. Take a good look at
your husband. See anything different.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Well, I've been noticing a change for the past few weeks.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
You're going to notice a much bigger change, sweetheart. Tomorrow
the new appointments will be made based on the results
of the annual examination.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
Did you do well? Hmmm? Did I do well? Read
this card?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
Then colosed card has a magnetic reproduction of your new
psychological profile. It indicates you are in the ninety nine
percentile of leadership, with the second highest altruism rating ever stored. Therefore,
a new position has been created for you. Beginning tomorrow,
you will be Deputy mayor of the district. Deputy Darling,
(15:47):
It's wonderful, yes, I dare say.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
It is only one thing troubles me with that. I
can't understand how anybody scored higher than I did. I'd
counted on the coming.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The following day, I reported to the office of the
new mayor of our district, the only person who had
scored higher than I on the annual examination. I was
ushered impromptly. The new mayor was seated behind a huge desk.
He wore his public face mask. Mister Mayor, I'm Norman Blake,
(16:23):
the new deputy.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yes, we've met, you know. Oh, I'm afraid I let
me remove my public face there, Henry Henry Foreman. I'm
amazed you didn't guess sooner. How quite simple. You and
idea fellow have unstable patterns with me.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
The first break came the day I took that bar
of candy from the baby as I was passing the
Nestroy my old act frightened me so that I sought
an animist, the same analyst you saw Rednick Rednick Hindre.
It's all the same, and you were the thief and
I never It takes one to no one know.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
You cheated on the exam too, using the computer tod
just as you did. Are there any others like us?
I don't know. We find out, though we're ambitious, you
and I.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
That means we'd be moving up, heading for the governorship,
perhaps even the presidency, and then we'll collide with the
others if there are any.
Speaker 1 (17:17):
As Rednik said, in a world of normal people, being
neurotic is king. The only trouble with that is there
can only be one king that's right, and only one mayor.
The look he gave me then sent chills up and
on my spine.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
In spite of my high position, I haven't had a
moment's peace or relaxation since neither I suspect as Henry Foreman,
there were imbalances in our world which had to lead
to the destruction of one or all of us, and
we knew it. There was one saying that Rednick Kinder
had forgotten to tack up.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
On his wall. Uneasy lies the head that wears the
crown a Fred Collins again. I'll have another word for
you about X minus one. In a moment, the attention
of the nation is focused on Los Angeles and New York.
(18:18):
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Night light heavyweight champ Archie Moore fit his skill and
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Company in co operation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazines, which
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this month features Morning Astor by Robert Sheckley. What was
Pearson doing here? Will he live or die? For the
answers to these and other questions he had to keep
tuning in on a hangover Galaxy magazine on your new
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Gunn and adapted for radio by George Lefford. Featured in
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