July 16, 2025 • 27 mins
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The book says when the ship shall enter into the
orbital pool of its destination, the motives will change in
sound due to the increased anti gravity components. A study
is being made to interpret the meaning of the word destination,
which was lost some four thousand years ago, and as
always in a subject for much controversy.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But this need not concern you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Suffice to be reassured that the change in the sound
of the motives is a part of the scheme of
the return to the schedule. The ship is all praise,
The ship, ship is all praised.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The ship.
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These are stories of the future.
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Adventures in which you'll live in a million, could be years,
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Speaker 1 (03:25):
One one The Night the Sense of Wonder by Milton Lesser.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The huge ship sped endlessly through space on the voyage
that had lasted ten thousand years, the journey which had
no end, and for those aboard her, there was no
other universe to them. The ship was all. The ship
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is all. Rychod read the slogan Emboston raised letters of
steel outside the door to the priest's compartment. The ship
is all. His eyes wandered. The face of the young
man standing next to him is Superior Kreifer. The face
had the empty, unquestioning expression that was typical of the
people of the ship.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Are you ready, Kreifer? I am entered, going.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well, I am Kleifer, Superior Class, third level Compartment WYE
fifty one. Welcome, This is my attendant, rykerd be welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Praise the ship. Praise the ship. What is your mission?
My superior schedule shows that today he is twenty five
units of age. He is ordered to appear before the
priest of the third level to be given a woman.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You have the schedule with you here, good, you have
your certificate of health and fertility. Show him the certificate, Riker.
Don't just stand there dreaming.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh yes, here, good, return.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To your compartment. I will have the matron bring you
a woman from the fourth level.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Praise the ship, pray, here's the ship.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Kreifer returned to his compartment, followed by Rychod. There was
no questioning in the mind of either of them. At birth,
each of the people was classified as a superior or
an attendant, and the coded marking of his schedule was
tattooed down his right arm. Both of these young men
were twenty five, strongly built and tanned from constant exposure
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to the health rays in the ship's conditioning room. Kreifer
wore the loose fitting robe of a superior. Rychod wore
the tight trousers and shirt. Have been attendant. They entered
the comfortably furnished compartment.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Kreifer, yes, what do you suppose you'll be like, what
difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't you even wonder about it?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I wonder about nothing. The ship is all plays the
ship well naturally, But still I could. We've been together,
a superior and attendant ever since the nursery. As an attendant.
Your entire purpose in life is to keep me alive
and productive, perpetuate the people. I would hate to have
to part with you now, to part with me. Not
of my own choosing, of course. But sometimes I detect
what appears to be a strain of unorthodox thinking.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Really, I was not aware of it. I am not.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Entirely aware of it myself, not enough for me to
report you. However, I must warn you that if it
should increase, I will have to send you for therapy.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, I assure you there'll be no need for that.
I have never deviated from the schedule. I have never
dissipeyed the buzz I.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Am merely observing, asking questions like, don't you even wonder
this is the first step to unorthodoxy.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I shall watch myself for signs of it.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Good Ah, the eating buzzer.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Your schedule calls for a massive dose.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Of multi vitamins signed to prepare it in the green
vegetables to day.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To day is a starch day.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Oh, I'd forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
We could just skip it to day.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, of course, skipping the vitamins for one day is
a permissible deviation, but I shall have to report for
punishment tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well, skip the vitamins. I know we would. You've never
missed a permissible deviation. Yet it's your influence that makes
me do it, and you always blame it on me.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
That's what attendants are for.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
That must be the matron with the woman. Open the door,
maintain the utmost dignity.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Is this the compartment of Kreifer third level? Why fifty one? Yes,
I am matron of the woman's level.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Bet, I am right good, Chreifer's attendant. This is Chreifer.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I have brought a mate for you.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This is she.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Be welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Praise the ship.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Praise the ship. A name is Allen.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Welcome Allen. I am most happy to be here. Praise
the ship thumb. I will show you which compartment is
to be ours this way. There are five compartments in
this week. All will you take food?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Matron? Why do you look at me that way?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
That mark on your forehead. You have always had such
a mark, Yes, and you have another diamond shaped.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
On your right show how could you know such a thing?
Speaker 8 (08:02):
I your name is right?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Could right?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
How like him? You look?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How like whom your father? By? What? Of course?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You could not know the meaning?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What do you say?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
When you were born, like any of the people of
the ship, you were taken immediately and placed in the
nursery of the ship. You never knew who sired you,
nor did they know you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Naturally, it's according to the schedule.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yes, it's according to the schedule.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I have a strange feeling towards you. I can't explain it.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
What sort of feeling, right?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Could as if we've met before, But that's impossible, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Still, there have been cases, it is almost heresy to
mention it, where a mother has been able to keep
her child for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Such a female would be turned over to the control
chief and fed into the converter if she were discovered.
It is a criminal thing to do. It is said
to walk the child so that he becomes a heretic
at an early age.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Yes, it is very very criminal.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Still, you say there have been cases.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Once there was a woman it is said an attendant
who managed to conceal such a child behind one of
the forbidden doors for almost three years.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Behind the doors. It's unspeakable, very likely only a room.
It's shocking to hear of such things behind the forbidden door.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
You're shocked, and yet something seems to stir deep in
your memory. Perhaps nothing, you're certain?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Why do you speak to me? First? Woman? Come closer?
What is it? Closer?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
But there's no chance that will be overheard.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, I could you are that child? I will not listen.
I will not listen.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
You are that child?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How could you know such a thing?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I am seventy units of age, twenty five units ago.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I was a matron of the nursery.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
This person came to me and told me of her child,
which she had concealed in a space locked behind the
forbidden door. She begged me to take get and placed
in a nice ye with the other children. I had
been her attendant for many years and.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
We were close to each other.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I did as she asked.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But are you certain this child was me?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
I remember the marks upunt.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And I am doomed.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Why doomed?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I have known my own parent. This accounts for the
strange feelings that come over me sometimes?
Speaker 8 (10:22):
What feelings are those?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Feeling? A sense of wonder? Ah, you seem pleased?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Could what your superior turns?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I cannot speak, but if you would satisfy this sense
of wonder, I have a book.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Which I will give you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I cannot accept a book without the supervision of the
ship's librarian. Make this one.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Keep it concealed here, I take it quickly. They're coming.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Well, what are you two whispering about?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I was merely explaining to your attendant how he must
behave in the presence of your mate.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
There is no need to explain. All is scheduled, nothing
is questioned. Praise the ship, Praise the ship.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I hope that your union will produce the optimum number
of children.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I leave now, Ellen, Yes, Chreifer, your duties will be
very simple. Record will teach you how to prepare my meals,
and you will memorize my schedule. In three months, he
will be freed from service as my attendant, and he
will report to the second level to find a mate
in the attendant class. Yes, Christ, it's time for my
health treatment. Teach your record.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yes, Kreifer, come here closer, where I may examine you.
This is Chreifer's schedule. You will memorize it. Yes, here
is a list of permissible deviations.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Oh, I am familiar with it, naturally.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I see. I was not aware of what training you
received on the women's level.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
The matron trained us.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Good, you have been with the matron a long time,
ever since I left the nursery. I see what is
she called?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Mara?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Mara? Tell me? Did she ever speak to you of
a sense of wonder?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Are you of the control police?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Certainly not.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Then you should know better than to discuss feelings.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I'm sorry, I thought, perhaps what's that the change bell?
There has been some change.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Which frightens me.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh, what does it mean? I don't know. I heard
it only once before, when the ship passed very close
to a red planet. There was a shower of stars,
and the ship seemed to shake, and the change bell rang.
We were all summoned to the priest and told that
we must undergo a test for radioactivity. What are we
to do?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Now, rely, Alan, quickly, it is the change bell. We
are all summoned to the priest of our level quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Within a few moments, the people of the third level
of the ship were assembled in the area outside the
compartment of Choul the priest. They stood there trembling, listening
and panic to the clangor of the change bell, not
daring to wonder what it meant, but aware that something
different that happened, something different.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Site mush coming the ship is all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Praise the ship, the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Listen to to your priest, I have just been in
contact with the chief priest of the ship. This is
what I have been given to say. For ten thousand
years now. Ever since the ship began the voyage, which
has no end, we have lived as one people.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Following the schedule.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
In those years, the change bell has rung only twice.
On one occasion it was to announce a change in
the schedule or the preservation of the people of the
ship following the epidemic. On another occasion, the ship passed
close to a radioactive explosion, and it was feared that
we had become dangerously activated. Now the change bell has
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rung again. You wish to know the reason. Naturally, I
am given to tell you there has been a change
in the sound of the motor.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Us.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There's no cause for alarm. The priests have consulted the
book which no man may see save the High Priest.
And we have learned that there is in the book
a provision for a change in the sound of the motives.
The book says, when the ship shall enter into the
orbital pool of its destination, the motives will change in
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sound due to the increased anti gravity components. A study
is being made to interpret the meaning of the word destination,
which was lost some four thousand years ago and has
always been a subject for much controversy. But this need
not concern you. Suffice to be reassured that the change
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in the sound of the motives is a part of
the scheme of the return to the schedule. The ship
is all, Praise the ship.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The sp is all raise the ship.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
On his way back to his compartment, Rerychold stopped for
a moment in front of the forbidden door which led
to no one knew what, and listened to the sound
of the motors. Yes, it was true, there was a
new sound. It was frightening, and yet at the same
time it made Rychfood's heart leap with expectation. He looked
at the forbidden door again and read the warning no
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unauthorized persons permitted through this door.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes, what's your name and compartment rightchood attendant to cry
for third level wife fifty one? Who are you.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Graph control police? Why do you loiter outside the forbidden door?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was merely reading the warning, trying to impress it
upon my brain. There are need to impress it. You
have doubts? Were no? No, of course not? Then why
bother to impress it? You have no doubt? There is
no need to impress it. Well, I was merely you see,
I am engaged in the training of a mate for
my superior. I wish to make certain that she knows
every jot and line of the warnings. She doubts, I'm
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sure she does not that why.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Impressed the warning of otter? It'd be sufficiently and pressed
upon us since birth. I was merely you were merely loitering,
Eh tell me ry, could do you ever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wonder what is behind the forbidden door? Never?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Are you perfectly content, perfectly good? I'm going to enter
your name in my reporters a warning. See that it
is not repeated, I will see return to your compartment.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I will return Praise the ship, prais the ship.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Reicherd went back to his own compartment. He tried to
push the events of the day out of his mind.
It was almost too much to cope with. First the
mate for Krieper, then the news of his birth, now
the change, and the sound of the motors, and the book.
Rychold lay inside his bunk, drew the curtain and took
the tiny, ancient plastic book from his trouser belt. He
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opened it and began to read.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It was thought advisable to keep from the passengers on
the ship the fact that their voyage might end in
catastrophe to leave the Earth because of its radioactivity. Following
the Three Wars, the inhabitants of the ship, to all
intents and purposes, became the inhabitants of a new world.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
The ship was their world.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
The organizers of the expedition felt it would be cruel
to inform them that the ship's navigation machinery had been
set in a series of ever increasing circles and then
ever decreasing circles, so that in ten thousand years the ship.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Would return to Earth.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
That was the possibility that Earth would no longer exist,
or that the radioactivity would have made it uninhabitable, even
if the remaining humans hadn't managed to explode it. Therefore,
the ship became all. Even the word destination was eliminated.
If it were known that I had chronicled this account,
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I would most certainly be executed on the book destroyed.
Most likely it will pass into legend and be disbelieved anyway,
just as fairy tales and even biblical account have become
tolerated but disbelieved by many who were The.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Sleep brothers sounded and Ryker's eyes closed automatically. Ordinarily, the
people of the ship did not dream, was considered a
sign that therapy was needed. Tonight, Reicherd dreamed, Rise, rise.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Dress dress.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Eight eight, Raise the ship, rise, eat, press the ship
is all?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
No, what what has it been?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Dreaming? I heard you and came in to see what
was troubling you. Where he sleeps like the dead.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I was dreaming, Allen, Look at me and tell me
the truth. Do you ever dream?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Do you?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I know it. I could tell it by looking at
your eyes.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
But you mustn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I won't. You were very close to the matron, were
you not?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Did she ever read to you?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Read?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Did she ever read from this? Where did you get
that she gave it to me?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Then you must be one of the trusted ones.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Who are the trusted ones?
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Some of us, the women who were with the matron
since we were very small. We've been trusted by her
to hear the reading of this book. I see anyone
found out? I know I could, yes, I I feel
very strange.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
I too.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Sometimes after the Matron had read to us from the book,
I would have this feeling strange and brightened, and she
would comfort us.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Comfort What does that mean?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
She would put her arms around.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Us and did that comfort you?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How terribly strange? I could? Yes, comfort me?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Put your arms around.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Me, Helen?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Please?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Will you? Yes?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
On the following morning, when Kryfer went to the conditioning room,
as prescribed by the buzzer, Rycher drew Aileen over to
the spaceboard and slid aside the protective shield.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, I am looking.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Tell me what you see?
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I see the stars and space.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh closely, do you see nothing unusual?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I so seldom look through the spaceboat.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'll tell you. Then. Look there see that one star
so big and so bright that it hurts your eyes.
I've been watching it. It is growing larger each our
stars do that? Never has one been this large.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
What difference does it make? The stars exist only as
pictures in the glass of the viewport.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They're not real. The ship is all.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That is what we are told. But perhaps it isn't true.
What Perhaps these stars do not exist only in the
glass of the viewport. Perhaps they exist beyond the viewport.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Let me say it this way once and forever. Perhaps, Ellen,
the ship is not all?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Why could you hear? He frightens me? Hy could hold
me close? It frightens me even to look at you?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Why could you?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Mustn't even think it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do think it. I believe it. I believe the
ship is not and.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I believe you are a candidate for the converter Kreifer.
Don't move, record, or I'll blast you into dust. It
is bad enough for an attendant even to touch the
superiors make, but to couple it with the ultimate heresy.
There is nothing but death in this crper. I beg
of you'll stand aside, Ellen, I'm going to finish this.
Heretic now record?
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I Oh, have I killed him?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No? He's just done?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Record? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't know?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I like it? The change bell again. Something's happening.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I know what has happened. Come we'll go to the priest.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
But if I cryer, he'll have us killed.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, it's too late to think of that. Come him
that welt to me.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The priest is entering.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Once again. The change.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Bell has sounded.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Bell has been another change.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Doubtless you all felt the shock and the vibration a
moment ago. I am informed that the motors I have stopped. Silence. However,
once again, there is no need for any panic or alarm.
We will continue to live our lives just as before.
The only thing that has changed is that the motives
have stopped, and that the view in the view ports
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has changed. Behold, the view in the view ports has
been changed from the stars to a goden.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That is all there is to it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The book makes mention of the fact that the view
in the view ports is changeable. Go back to your
compartments and resume the schedule. The buzzer will be your
guide as always. The ship is all.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I have something to say. Listen. This is what I
have to say. The ship is no longer all horry
bee back. I have my.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Superiors right gun. I will destroy any who moved to
seize me. Listen, to what I have to say. The
view in the view ports is not just a guy.
It is the destination.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It is the earth.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
Don't you understand me. We have arrived, We have reached
the destination. The journey is over. We can leave the
ship and go out into the garden. Fools, can't you understand?
Watch the viewport?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Watch it.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
The viewport has broken. I've shattered it. You can go out.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Feel the air Russian smell its fragrance.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
They don't move, They don't understand him.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Kill the Heltic, Kill him at they're moving toward us.
Run follow me quickly after him. Death to the hell.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Righter and Naylan ran down the long steel corridor with
the crowd on their heels. After a few moment, they
came to the forbidden door of the control room.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Eileen, quick in here, and it's forbidden. I'll have to
blast the lock quickly. Now come now, help me close
the door. Now the bar. We're safe in here for
a while. Not even the priest can make them come
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in here. Afterwards. It'll take them time to figure out
what to do.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
I could look look at the machinery. It's frightening.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
We're in the control room. It tells about it in
the book. You see this big machine here. There was
a drawing in the book. This is the machine that
controls the buzzer. Just a simple machine like that, Yes,
a simple machine. Stand back, what are you gonna do do?
I'm gonna smash it. Now they're going to have to
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find a way to live without the buzzer? Why I
can ship.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Breaking down the door?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I'm with me.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Where can we go? There's nothing?
Speaker 11 (26:06):
And ship the ship.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now there's more than the ship. Now, Allen, there's the Earth,
the cool, green Earth. I'm going to smash the viewport.
Come on, we're going to leave the ship.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Frank, put your arms around me.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Come, Alen, take my hand.
Here's the Earth, and it is ours.
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Speaker 3 (01:40):
The book says when the ship shall enter into the
orbital pool of its destination, the motives will change in
sound due to the increased anti gravity components. A study
is being made to interpret the meaning of the word destination,
which was lost some four thousand years ago, and as
always in a subject for much controversy.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
But this need not concern you.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Suffice to be reassured that the change in the sound
of the motives is a part of the scheme of
the return to the schedule. The ship is all praise,
The ship, ship is all praised.
Speaker 1 (02:20):
The ship.
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Speaker 1 (03:25):
One one The Night the Sense of Wonder by Milton Lesser.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
The huge ship sped endlessly through space on the voyage
that had lasted ten thousand years, the journey which had
no end, and for those aboard her, there was no
other universe to them. The ship was all. The ship
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is all. Rychod read the slogan Emboston raised letters of
steel outside the door to the priest's compartment. The ship
is all. His eyes wandered. The face of the young
man standing next to him is Superior Kreifer. The face
had the empty, unquestioning expression that was typical of the
people of the ship.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Are you ready, Kreifer? I am entered, going.
Speaker 6 (04:26):
Well, I am Kleifer, Superior Class, third level Compartment WYE
fifty one. Welcome, This is my attendant, rykerd be welcome.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
Praise the ship. Praise the ship. What is your mission?
My superior schedule shows that today he is twenty five
units of age. He is ordered to appear before the
priest of the third level to be given a woman.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
You have the schedule with you here, good, you have
your certificate of health and fertility. Show him the certificate, Riker.
Don't just stand there dreaming.
Speaker 1 (04:51):
Oh yes, here, good, return.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
To your compartment. I will have the matron bring you
a woman from the fourth level.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Praise the ship, pray, here's the ship.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Kreifer returned to his compartment, followed by Rychod. There was
no questioning in the mind of either of them. At birth,
each of the people was classified as a superior or
an attendant, and the coded marking of his schedule was
tattooed down his right arm. Both of these young men
were twenty five, strongly built and tanned from constant exposure
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to the health rays in the ship's conditioning room. Kreifer
wore the loose fitting robe of a superior. Rychod wore
the tight trousers and shirt. Have been attendant. They entered
the comfortably furnished compartment.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Kreifer, yes, what do you suppose you'll be like, what
difference does it make?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Don't you even wonder about it?
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I wonder about nothing. The ship is all plays the
ship well naturally, But still I could. We've been together,
a superior and attendant ever since the nursery. As an attendant.
Your entire purpose in life is to keep me alive
and productive, perpetuate the people. I would hate to have
to part with you now, to part with me. Not
of my own choosing, of course. But sometimes I detect
what appears to be a strain of unorthodox thinking.
Speaker 1 (06:10):
Really, I was not aware of it. I am not.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
Entirely aware of it myself, not enough for me to
report you. However, I must warn you that if it
should increase, I will have to send you for therapy.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
Well, I assure you there'll be no need for that.
I have never deviated from the schedule. I have never
dissipeyed the buzz I.
Speaker 6 (06:27):
Am merely observing, asking questions like, don't you even wonder
this is the first step to unorthodoxy.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
I shall watch myself for signs of it.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Good Ah, the eating buzzer.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Your schedule calls for a massive dose.
Speaker 6 (06:41):
Of multi vitamins signed to prepare it in the green
vegetables to day.
Speaker 1 (06:44):
To day is a starch day.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Oh, I'd forgotten.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
We could just skip it to day.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Well, of course, skipping the vitamins for one day is
a permissible deviation, but I shall have to report for
punishment tomorrow.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Well, skip the vitamins. I know we would. You've never
missed a permissible deviation. Yet it's your influence that makes
me do it, and you always blame it on me.
Speaker 6 (07:08):
That's what attendants are for.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Yes, I know.
Speaker 6 (07:12):
That must be the matron with the woman. Open the door,
maintain the utmost dignity.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Please? Yes?
Speaker 7 (07:21):
Is this the compartment of Kreifer third level? Why fifty one? Yes,
I am matron of the woman's level.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Bet, I am right good, Chreifer's attendant. This is Chreifer.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
I have brought a mate for you.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
This is she.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Be welcome.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
Praise the ship.
Speaker 8 (07:35):
Praise the ship. A name is Allen.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Welcome Allen. I am most happy to be here. Praise
the ship thumb. I will show you which compartment is
to be ours this way. There are five compartments in
this week. All will you take food?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Matron? Why do you look at me that way?
Speaker 7 (07:52):
That mark on your forehead. You have always had such
a mark, Yes, and you have another diamond shaped.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
On your right show how could you know such a thing?
Speaker 8 (08:02):
I your name is right?
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Could right?
Speaker 8 (08:06):
How like him? You look?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
How like whom your father? By? What? Of course?
Speaker 7 (08:13):
You could not know the meaning?
Speaker 1 (08:14):
What do you say?
Speaker 7 (08:15):
When you were born, like any of the people of
the ship, you were taken immediately and placed in the
nursery of the ship. You never knew who sired you,
nor did they know you.
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Naturally, it's according to the schedule.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Yes, it's according to the schedule.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
I have a strange feeling towards you. I can't explain it.
Speaker 7 (08:34):
What sort of feeling, right?
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Could as if we've met before, But that's impossible, of course.
Speaker 8 (08:40):
Yes.
Speaker 7 (08:41):
Still, there have been cases, it is almost heresy to
mention it, where a mother has been able to keep
her child for a while.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Such a female would be turned over to the control
chief and fed into the converter if she were discovered.
It is a criminal thing to do. It is said
to walk the child so that he becomes a heretic
at an early age.
Speaker 8 (08:59):
Yes, it is very very criminal.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Still, you say there have been cases.
Speaker 7 (09:05):
Once there was a woman it is said an attendant
who managed to conceal such a child behind one of
the forbidden doors for almost three years.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Behind the doors. It's unspeakable, very likely only a room.
It's shocking to hear of such things behind the forbidden door.
Speaker 7 (09:24):
You're shocked, and yet something seems to stir deep in
your memory. Perhaps nothing, you're certain?
Speaker 1 (09:30):
Why do you speak to me? First? Woman? Come closer?
What is it? Closer?
Speaker 8 (09:35):
But there's no chance that will be overheard.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Well, I could you are that child? I will not listen.
I will not listen.
Speaker 8 (09:44):
You are that child?
Speaker 1 (09:45):
How could you know such a thing?
Speaker 7 (09:46):
I am seventy units of age, twenty five units ago.
Speaker 8 (09:49):
I was a matron of the nursery.
Speaker 7 (09:51):
This person came to me and told me of her child,
which she had concealed in a space locked behind the
forbidden door. She begged me to take get and placed
in a nice ye with the other children. I had
been her attendant for many years and.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
We were close to each other.
Speaker 7 (10:07):
I did as she asked.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
But are you certain this child was me?
Speaker 7 (10:11):
I remember the marks upunt.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
And I am doomed.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
Why doomed?
Speaker 1 (10:16):
I have known my own parent. This accounts for the
strange feelings that come over me sometimes?
Speaker 8 (10:22):
What feelings are those?
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Feeling? A sense of wonder? Ah, you seem pleased?
Speaker 8 (10:29):
Could what your superior turns?
Speaker 7 (10:31):
I cannot speak, but if you would satisfy this sense
of wonder, I have a book.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
Which I will give you.
Speaker 1 (10:37):
I cannot accept a book without the supervision of the
ship's librarian. Make this one.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Keep it concealed here, I take it quickly. They're coming.
Speaker 6 (10:44):
Well, what are you two whispering about?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I was merely explaining to your attendant how he must
behave in the presence of your mate.
Speaker 6 (10:51):
There is no need to explain. All is scheduled, nothing
is questioned. Praise the ship, Praise the ship.
Speaker 7 (10:57):
I hope that your union will produce the optimum number
of children.
Speaker 6 (11:02):
I leave now, Ellen, Yes, Chreifer, your duties will be
very simple. Record will teach you how to prepare my meals,
and you will memorize my schedule. In three months, he
will be freed from service as my attendant, and he
will report to the second level to find a mate
in the attendant class. Yes, Christ, it's time for my
health treatment. Teach your record.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
Yes, Kreifer, come here closer, where I may examine you.
This is Chreifer's schedule. You will memorize it. Yes, here
is a list of permissible deviations.
Speaker 8 (11:40):
Oh, I am familiar with it, naturally.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
I see. I was not aware of what training you
received on the women's level.
Speaker 8 (11:46):
The matron trained us.
Speaker 6 (11:47):
Well.
Speaker 1 (11:47):
Good, you have been with the matron a long time,
ever since I left the nursery. I see what is
she called?
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Mara?
Speaker 1 (11:56):
Mara? Tell me? Did she ever speak to you of
a sense of wonder?
Speaker 8 (12:02):
Are you of the control police?
Speaker 1 (12:03):
Certainly not.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Then you should know better than to discuss feelings.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I'm sorry, I thought, perhaps what's that the change bell?
There has been some change.
Speaker 8 (12:12):
Which frightens me.
Speaker 1 (12:14):
Oh, what does it mean? I don't know. I heard
it only once before, when the ship passed very close
to a red planet. There was a shower of stars,
and the ship seemed to shake, and the change bell rang.
We were all summoned to the priest and told that
we must undergo a test for radioactivity. What are we
to do?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Now, rely, Alan, quickly, it is the change bell. We
are all summoned to the priest of our level quickly.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
Within a few moments, the people of the third level
of the ship were assembled in the area outside the
compartment of Choul the priest. They stood there trembling, listening
and panic to the clangor of the change bell, not
daring to wonder what it meant, but aware that something
different that happened, something different.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
Site mush coming the ship is all.
Speaker 1 (13:03):
Praise the ship, the ship.
Speaker 3 (13:06):
Listen to to your priest, I have just been in
contact with the chief priest of the ship. This is
what I have been given to say. For ten thousand
years now. Ever since the ship began the voyage, which
has no end, we have lived as one people.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Following the schedule.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
In those years, the change bell has rung only twice.
On one occasion it was to announce a change in
the schedule or the preservation of the people of the
ship following the epidemic. On another occasion, the ship passed
close to a radioactive explosion, and it was feared that
we had become dangerously activated. Now the change bell has
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rung again. You wish to know the reason. Naturally, I
am given to tell you there has been a change
in the sound of the motor.
Speaker 9 (13:59):
Us.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There's no cause for alarm. The priests have consulted the
book which no man may see save the High Priest.
And we have learned that there is in the book
a provision for a change in the sound of the motives.
The book says, when the ship shall enter into the
orbital pool of its destination, the motives will change in
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sound due to the increased anti gravity components. A study
is being made to interpret the meaning of the word destination,
which was lost some four thousand years ago and has
always been a subject for much controversy. But this need
not concern you. Suffice to be reassured that the change
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in the sound of the motives is a part of
the scheme of the return to the schedule. The ship
is all, Praise the ship.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The sp is all raise the ship.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
On his way back to his compartment, Rerychold stopped for
a moment in front of the forbidden door which led
to no one knew what, and listened to the sound
of the motors. Yes, it was true, there was a
new sound. It was frightening, and yet at the same
time it made Rychfood's heart leap with expectation. He looked
at the forbidden door again and read the warning no
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unauthorized persons permitted through this door.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
Yes, what's your name and compartment rightchood attendant to cry
for third level wife fifty one? Who are you.
Speaker 9 (15:31):
Graph control police? Why do you loiter outside the forbidden door?
Speaker 1 (15:36):
I was merely reading the warning, trying to impress it
upon my brain. There are need to impress it. You
have doubts? Were no? No, of course not? Then why
bother to impress it? You have no doubt? There is
no need to impress it. Well, I was merely you see,
I am engaged in the training of a mate for
my superior. I wish to make certain that she knows
every jot and line of the warnings. She doubts, I'm
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sure she does not that why.
Speaker 9 (15:57):
Impressed the warning of otter? It'd be sufficiently and pressed
upon us since birth. I was merely you were merely loitering,
Eh tell me ry, could do you ever.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
Wonder what is behind the forbidden door? Never?
Speaker 9 (16:10):
Are you perfectly content, perfectly good? I'm going to enter
your name in my reporters a warning. See that it
is not repeated, I will see return to your compartment.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
I will return Praise the ship, prais the ship.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
Reicherd went back to his own compartment. He tried to
push the events of the day out of his mind.
It was almost too much to cope with. First the
mate for Krieper, then the news of his birth, now
the change, and the sound of the motors, and the book.
Rychold lay inside his bunk, drew the curtain and took
the tiny, ancient plastic book from his trouser belt. He
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opened it and began to read.
Speaker 7 (16:53):
It was thought advisable to keep from the passengers on
the ship the fact that their voyage might end in
catastrophe to leave the Earth because of its radioactivity. Following
the Three Wars, the inhabitants of the ship, to all
intents and purposes, became the inhabitants of a new world.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
The ship was their world.
Speaker 7 (17:12):
The organizers of the expedition felt it would be cruel
to inform them that the ship's navigation machinery had been
set in a series of ever increasing circles and then
ever decreasing circles, so that in ten thousand years the ship.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Would return to Earth.
Speaker 7 (17:28):
That was the possibility that Earth would no longer exist,
or that the radioactivity would have made it uninhabitable, even
if the remaining humans hadn't managed to explode it. Therefore,
the ship became all. Even the word destination was eliminated.
If it were known that I had chronicled this account,
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I would most certainly be executed on the book destroyed.
Most likely it will pass into legend and be disbelieved anyway,
just as fairy tales and even biblical account have become
tolerated but disbelieved by many who were The.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
Sleep brothers sounded and Ryker's eyes closed automatically. Ordinarily, the
people of the ship did not dream, was considered a
sign that therapy was needed. Tonight, Reicherd dreamed, Rise, rise.
Speaker 6 (18:29):
Dress dress.
Speaker 10 (18:33):
Eight eight, Raise the ship, rise, eat, press the ship
is all?
Speaker 1 (18:45):
No, what what has it been?
Speaker 8 (18:49):
Dreaming? I heard you and came in to see what
was troubling you. Where he sleeps like the dead.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
I was dreaming, Allen, Look at me and tell me
the truth. Do you ever dream?
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Do you?
Speaker 8 (19:03):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:03):
I know it. I could tell it by looking at
your eyes.
Speaker 8 (19:06):
But you mustn't tell anybody.
Speaker 1 (19:07):
I won't. You were very close to the matron, were
you not?
Speaker 8 (19:10):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (19:11):
Did she ever read to you?
Speaker 8 (19:13):
Read?
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Did she ever read from this? Where did you get
that she gave it to me?
Speaker 8 (19:20):
Then you must be one of the trusted ones.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Who are the trusted ones?
Speaker 11 (19:24):
Some of us, the women who were with the matron
since we were very small. We've been trusted by her
to hear the reading of this book. I see anyone
found out? I know I could, yes, I I feel
very strange.
Speaker 9 (19:39):
I too.
Speaker 8 (19:41):
What is it?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I don't know.
Speaker 11 (19:44):
Sometimes after the Matron had read to us from the book,
I would have this feeling strange and brightened, and she
would comfort us.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
Comfort What does that mean?
Speaker 8 (19:59):
She would put her arms around.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Us and did that comfort you?
Speaker 8 (20:04):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
How terribly strange? I could? Yes, comfort me?
Speaker 8 (20:14):
Put your arms around.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
Me, Helen?
Speaker 8 (20:17):
Please?
Speaker 1 (20:18):
Will you? Yes?
Speaker 8 (20:23):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (20:34):
On the following morning, when Kryfer went to the conditioning room,
as prescribed by the buzzer, Rycher drew Aileen over to
the spaceboard and slid aside the protective shield.
Speaker 8 (20:48):
Look, I am looking.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
Tell me what you see?
Speaker 8 (20:51):
I see the stars and space.
Speaker 1 (20:53):
Oh closely, do you see nothing unusual?
Speaker 8 (20:56):
I so seldom look through the spaceboat.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
I'll tell you. Then. Look there see that one star
so big and so bright that it hurts your eyes.
I've been watching it. It is growing larger each our
stars do that? Never has one been this large.
Speaker 11 (21:12):
What difference does it make? The stars exist only as
pictures in the glass of the viewport.
Speaker 8 (21:16):
They're not real. The ship is all.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
That is what we are told. But perhaps it isn't true.
What Perhaps these stars do not exist only in the
glass of the viewport. Perhaps they exist beyond the viewport.
Speaker 8 (21:30):
I don't understand.
Speaker 1 (21:31):
Let me say it this way once and forever. Perhaps, Ellen,
the ship is not all?
Speaker 8 (21:38):
Why could you hear? He frightens me? Hy could hold
me close? It frightens me even to look at you?
Speaker 6 (21:45):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (21:45):
Why could you?
Speaker 8 (21:45):
Mustn't even think it.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
I do think it. I believe it. I believe the
ship is not and.
Speaker 6 (21:50):
I believe you are a candidate for the converter Kreifer.
Don't move, record, or I'll blast you into dust. It
is bad enough for an attendant even to touch the
superiors make, but to couple it with the ultimate heresy.
There is nothing but death in this crper. I beg
of you'll stand aside, Ellen, I'm going to finish this.
Heretic now record?
Speaker 8 (22:09):
I Oh, have I killed him?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
No? He's just done?
Speaker 8 (22:15):
Record? What can we do?
Speaker 1 (22:16):
I don't know?
Speaker 8 (22:17):
I like it? The change bell again. Something's happening.
Speaker 1 (22:21):
I know what has happened. Come we'll go to the priest.
Speaker 8 (22:24):
But if I cryer, he'll have us killed.
Speaker 1 (22:25):
No, it's too late to think of that. Come him
that welt to me.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
The priest is entering.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Once again. The change.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Bell has sounded.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Bell has been another change.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Doubtless you all felt the shock and the vibration a
moment ago. I am informed that the motors I have stopped. Silence. However,
once again, there is no need for any panic or alarm.
We will continue to live our lives just as before.
The only thing that has changed is that the motives
have stopped, and that the view in the view ports
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has changed. Behold, the view in the view ports has
been changed from the stars to a goden.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
That is all there is to it.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
The book makes mention of the fact that the view
in the view ports is changeable. Go back to your
compartments and resume the schedule. The buzzer will be your
guide as always. The ship is all.
Speaker 9 (23:40):
No.
Speaker 1 (23:41):
I have something to say. Listen. This is what I
have to say. The ship is no longer all horry
bee back. I have my.
Speaker 12 (23:51):
Superiors right gun. I will destroy any who moved to
seize me. Listen, to what I have to say. The
view in the view ports is not just a guy.
It is the destination.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
It is the earth.
Speaker 12 (24:05):
Don't you understand me. We have arrived, We have reached
the destination. The journey is over. We can leave the
ship and go out into the garden. Fools, can't you understand?
Watch the viewport?
Speaker 1 (24:23):
Watch it.
Speaker 12 (24:26):
The viewport has broken. I've shattered it. You can go out.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Feel the air Russian smell its fragrance.
Speaker 8 (24:35):
They don't move, They don't understand him.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Kill the Heltic, Kill him at they're moving toward us.
Run follow me quickly after him. Death to the hell.
Speaker 5 (24:54):
Righter and Naylan ran down the long steel corridor with
the crowd on their heels. After a few moment, they
came to the forbidden door of the control room.
Speaker 1 (25:04):
Eileen, quick in here, and it's forbidden. I'll have to
blast the lock quickly. Now come now, help me close
the door. Now the bar. We're safe in here for
a while. Not even the priest can make them come
(25:25):
in here. Afterwards. It'll take them time to figure out
what to do.
Speaker 8 (25:29):
I could look look at the machinery. It's frightening.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
We're in the control room. It tells about it in
the book. You see this big machine here. There was
a drawing in the book. This is the machine that
controls the buzzer. Just a simple machine like that, Yes,
a simple machine. Stand back, what are you gonna do do?
I'm gonna smash it. Now they're going to have to
(26:00):
find a way to live without the buzzer? Why I
can ship.
Speaker 8 (26:03):
Breaking down the door?
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I'm with me.
Speaker 8 (26:05):
Where can we go? There's nothing?
Speaker 11 (26:06):
And ship the ship.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Now there's more than the ship. Now, Allen, there's the Earth,
the cool, green Earth. I'm going to smash the viewport.
Come on, we're going to leave the ship.
Speaker 8 (26:20):
Frank, put your arms around me.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
There's nothing to be afraid of. Come, Alen, take my hand.
Here's the Earth, and it is ours.
Speaker 4 (26:44):
You have just heard X minus one presented by the
National Broadcasting Company in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
which this month features a story by F. L. Wallace
titled Mezsio Loves Company. When Marcus Mezzuro set out on
his mission to Earth, he was driven by pride and
indignation plus a practical reason. But if he'd known what
(27:05):
lay ahead, he might have decided to let bad enough
alone Galaxy magazine on your news stand to day tonight
by transcription. X minus one has brought You the Sense
of Wonder, based on a story from the pages of
Galaxy written by Milton Lesser and adapted for radio.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
By George Lefferts.
Speaker 4 (27:23):
Featured in the cast were James Monks, Bill Quinn, Edwin
Jerome Vera, Allen Rita, Lloyd Jodasantis, and Dick Hamilton. Raymond
Edward Johnson was the narrator. You're announcer Fred Collins. X
minus one was directed by Daniel Sutter and is an
NBC Radio Network production.
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