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2. You're traveling
through another dimension-
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3. a dimension not only of sight
and sound, but of mind.
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4. A journey into a wondrous land
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5. whose boundaries
are that of imagination.
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6. That's the signpost up ahead.
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7. Your next stop,
the twilight zone.
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8. When was that
picture taken?
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9. Why, I don't think
I remember, my dear.
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10. You're looking at
that album again?
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11. It seems like that's
all you do lately
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12. is look
at that album.
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13. When was that picture taken?
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14. Oh, it's a lovely picture of you, nelda.
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15. Thank you, ma'am.
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16. Let's see. That
was taken the summer
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17. after dr. Loren retired
from the laboratory.
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18. You're holding those
lovely yellow roses
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19. that jensen
planted for us.
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20. You don't look
any different now
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21. than you did then.
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22. That's kind of you,
miss jana.
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23. Jana, nelda will put
that away for you.
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24. That's all right,
father.
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25. I'd like to put
it away myself.
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26. You're not chilly,
are you, jana, dear?
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27. Shouldn't be.
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28. 72 degrees
in here.
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29. Isn't it,
william?
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30. Isn't it
72 degrees?
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31. Exactly. The
optimum temperature.
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32. Of course.
The optimum temperature.
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33. And the fireplace- designed
for perfect heat radiation.
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34. The chairs, for
maximum comfort.
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35. And the windows
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36. for the most efficient light,
and proper ventilation.
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37. Oh, yes, and the ceilings
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38. for the most desirable
acoustical qualities.
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39. Everything built to
perfection, father.
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40. Everything designed
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41. for a perfect life.
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42. Oh, please
continue, nelda.
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43. That's it.
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44. Haven't you had enough
of that, mother?
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45. Why, jana, dear
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46. you know it helps
my appetite.
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47. Almost 6:00.
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48. Nearly time
for dinner.
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49. Why don't we eat a little
bit earlier tonight?
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50. Or a little bit later?
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51. Why don't we go out
to a restaurant?
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52. A restaurant?
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53. Why, jana, my dear,
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54. why in the world would
we go out to eat
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55. in a restaurant?
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56. I don't know.
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57. It's just that it
would be different.
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58. Yes, it would
be different.
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59. We'd walk
through the rain
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60. and get ourselves
sopping wet.
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61. Then we'd eat some greasy, unpalatable food
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62. served off of dirty,
unwashed plates
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63. and after that it would
be a moot question
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64. whether we'd succumb
to ptomaine or pneumonia.
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65. Will that be
all, ma'am?
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66. Oh, just a little
bit longer, nelda.
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67. Don't make her
do that anymore!
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68. What is the matter with you?
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69. It's just that outside there must be
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70. the clean, beautiful
sound of rain.
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71. And in here
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72. those constant animal grunts of pleasure.
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73. Jana!
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74. Yell at me, father.
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75. Please yell at me.
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76. I can't tell you how delighted
I am to hear you yell at me.
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77. It proves that you've got lungs.
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78. Lungs and a mind and
a mouth and a voice.
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79. Oh, father, we're
atrophying in here.
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80. We sit here day after day
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81. and year
after year
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82. while that clock
turns and turns.
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83. And we decay with every minute
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84. while nelda the maid
and robert the butler
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85. and gretchen the cook
and jensen the handyman...
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86. jana!
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87. While these domestics do everything
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88. but our
breathing for us.
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89. Nelda, will you
leave us, please?
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90. Yes, sir.
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91. Nelda!
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92. I'm speaking
to you, nelda.
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93. Yes, miss jana?
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94. Don't you agree
with me, nelda?
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95. You were saying,
miss jana?
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96. I was about
to say that...
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97. I was about to make
mention of the fact...
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98. please don't stop
on my account, jana.
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99. We have no
secrets here.
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100. Don't we?
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101. No secrets. Is
that it, father?
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102. Why, that's all we
do have- secrets.
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103. That's how
we live-
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104. by shutting
off the world,
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105. turning our
backs on it,
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106. while you soundless, fleshless
things glide around here
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107. and, with your efficient
ministrations,
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108. turn my father and
my mother into jelly.
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109. If I may say so,
miss jana,
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110. you sound jealous.
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111. You said yourself, jana,
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112. that I designed and
built to perfection,
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113. and I made these people
quite indestructible.
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114. It's like living with ghosts.
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115. Oh, no, my dear. Not ghosts.
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116. Ghosts are those
who have died after living,
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117. but these people had no life
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118. until I gave
it to them.
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119. The residence
of dr. William loren,
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120. which is, in reality,
a menagerie for machines.
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121. We're about to discover
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122. that sometimes the product
of man's talent and genius
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123. can walk amongst us untouched
by the normal ravages of time.
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124. These are dr. Loren's robots,
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125. built to function
as well as artistic perfection.
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126. But, in a moment, dr. William
loren, wife and daughter
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127. will discover that
perfection is relative-
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128. that even robots
have to be paid for-
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129. and very shortly will be shown
exactly what is the bill.
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130. Tonight, florient unscented,
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131. the new kind of room deodorant
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132. that kills bad odors
yet leaves no fragrance,
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133. brings you...
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134. ah. I believe I'll take
the meerschaum tonight, robert.
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135. I'll prepare it, sir.
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136. Will there be
anything else, dr. Loren?
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137. I think not tonight,
robert.
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138. Good night, sir.
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139. Good night, robert.
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140. Oh, uh... robert?
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141. There's no need.
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142. I'll light your pipe
tonight, father.
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143. Well, jana, shall
we talk of it now?
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144. Shall we talk
of what?
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145. Why, I think
that's quite obvious.
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146. Suddenly, inexplicably,
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147. your mother and I find
you're unhappy.
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148. You're rebellious.
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149. Do you think that
pleases us, jana?
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150. I don't know.
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151. I explained to you
a long time ago
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152. why I did what I did-
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153. why I retired
from the world,
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154. and why I built
these people.
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155. What you've done
to yourselves
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156. is an atrocity.
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157. But what you've done
to me is worse.
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158. You've turned me into a freak-
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159. an unsocial, unworldly,
insulated freak.
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160. Shall I tell you
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161. what else I've
done for you, jana?
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162. I've kept you from harm.
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163. I've protected you
against disease.
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164. And insulation in this
20th century is no crime.
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165. It's a service.
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166. You've never had to look
into the face of war
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167. or the face of poverty
or prejudice.
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168. Well, you've
been isolated, yes,
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169. but what you think
of as imprisonment
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170. just happens to be asylum and
security, yes, and survival.
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171. Asylum in
a hothouse?
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172. Security in
a mausoleum?
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173. Survival as a vegetable survives.
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174. What you're becoming,
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175. and what you're
making me become...
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176. a vegetable.
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177. Thank you.
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178. Yes, sir.
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179. Oh.
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180. Now, madam.
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181. There's a good girl.
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182. Will that
be all, ma'am?
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183. Yes. Thank you,
nelda. Good night.
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184. Good night, ma'am.
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185. Nelda!
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186. Time is running out, father.
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187. Instead of controlling,
you're being controlled.
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188. Why, you're becoming dependent.
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189. You're both reaching a point
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190. where you won't be able
to exist without them.
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191. Destroy them, father.
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192. Get rid of them.
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193. Dismantle them.
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194. Jana!
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195. Jana, they're
not just machines.
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196. Do you know how many
thousands of hours
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197. I've spent in
developing them
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198. and perfecting them?
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199. Do you realize how... how
marvelously intricate they are?
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200. How scientifically
precise?
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201. Not just arms and legs
that move, jana.
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202. They're creatures.
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203. They have minds
and wills.
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204. They have memory
tracks, you see?
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205. I've given each one of them a
memory of his own, haven't I?
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206. Yes.
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207. And all of them can
recount to you in detail
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208. everything that's
happened to them
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209. since their
early childhood,
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210. and they had no childhood.
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211. They were born just as you
see them now, weren't they?
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212. Yes.
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213. Looking the way they do,
acting the way they do,
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214. but each with
his own talent.
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215. One of them was
built as a cook.
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216. Another was built
as a maid.
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217. The butler was
manufactured as a butler.
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218. The handyman knows nothing
but being a handyman.
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219. Jana, you're not asking me
to dismantle machines.
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220. You're asking me
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221. to destroy
that which has life.
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222. Life?
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223. They're just highly
complicated toys.
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224. Father, you've
turned this house
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225. into a playroom.
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226. Why, jana, dear.
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227. Listen to your mother.
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228. You're acting like
a willful child.
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229. A willful child?
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230. I'm acting like
a woman, mother,
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231. who wants something
more out of life
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232. than just to be massaged
five times a day.
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233. Or a man
who thinks paradise
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234. is having his pipes
filled and refilled,
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235. and his slippers
put on and taken off.
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236. You've got to get
rid of them, father-
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237. nelda, gretchen, suzanne-
all of them.
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238. That is quite
impossible.
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239. I'll give you a choice-
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240. get rid of them
or I'll leave.
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241. You can't leave,
jana, dear.
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242. Why, you simply
can't leave.
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243. Well, what would
happen to you?
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244. Who'd look
after you?
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245. What would you
do out there?
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246. I'd be with normal
people, mother-
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247. people who live
and work and then die-
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248. but do it properly,
the way god intended.
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249. That's where I want
to be- out there!
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250. I want my freedom.
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251. Jana, it just
isn't possible.
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252. I want my freedom!
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253. Miss jana,
you'll forgive me
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254. but that was most
intemperate of you.
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255. I consider that
unforgivable behavior.
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256. Jana, you must have
respect for your parents.
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257. I agree. You must
show respect.
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258. Stop it!
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259. You're jokes.
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260. That's what you are.
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261. Hysterical jokes,
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262. with your sad little homilies
and your mouthed cliches.
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263. You're nothing but walking record players.
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264. That's all
any of you are-
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265. walking record
players.
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266. Jana, you're
making it difficult
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267. for me to be patient.
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268. Very difficult indeed.
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269. I do apologize, father.
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270. I know how accustomed
to perfection you are,
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271. and I hate to throw a stone
in that serene pool of yours,
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272. but you forgot
something.
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273. Do you know that?
You forgot something.
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274. They may be indestructible,
father, but you're not!
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275. Jana.
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276. Jana, dear,
you don't really
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277. want to leave us,
do you?
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278. I thought I made it
quite plain, father.
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279. I want you to
open the windows
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280. and let the air in.
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281. I want you to
let the world in.
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282. By destroying my
whole life's work.
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283. Jana, we've loved
you very much.
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284. If you could only see
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285. that all of this has been
just as much for you
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286. as for ourselves.
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287. Oh, jana, we love you
more than words can tell.
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288. I know that, father.
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289. I know that.
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290. Then... then
you will stay.
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291. Oh, please stay, jana.
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292. I beg of you, please.
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293. No.
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294. Jana, I'll do what
you asked me to do.
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295. I promise you.
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296. I'll do it right away.
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297. Nelda, gretchen, suzanne-
all of you-
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298. rest in peace.
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299. Robert.
Sir?
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300. I want you to take
all the servants
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301. downstairs to my workroom.
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302. Just stay there
until I come.
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303. Have our services
been unsatisfactory, sir?
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304. Robert, I have
given you an order.
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305. You are, all of you,
to go downstairs
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306. and wait for me.
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307. But I've been
an excellent butler, sir.
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308. You know I have.
I think you'll agree with me.
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309. I came very well-
recommended, sir.
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310. There isn't a more
efficient maid
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311. in the entire
country.
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312. I can fix anything
that has to be fixed.
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313. No more!
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314. Robert,
you have your orders.
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315. It's all over.
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316. We're alone
in the house now.
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317. Alone, william?
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318. Yes, my dear.
Quite alone.
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319. You and I and
our daughter.
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320. I've become so
accustomed to them.
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321. It'll be difficult
at first,
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322. won't it, william?
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323. Yes, my dear, a little,
in the beginning.
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324. Oh, mother.
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325. We're going to live
like normal people
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326. do you understand?
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327. Normal people.
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328. We're going
to give parties
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329. and we'll take trips
and we'll make friends
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330. and I'll find
a young man.
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331. I'll find a young man
and, before you know it,
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332. we're going to
have grandchildren.
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333. Oh, father,
grandchildren.
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334. What's the matter?
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335. What is it?
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336. It's what you said
about grandchildren.
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337. You see, what your
mother means, jana...
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338. what she means is it's
perfectly normal and natural
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339. for parents to think
of their children
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340. as children.
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341. And then, when
suddenly they grow up
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342. and they talk of having
children of their own,
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343. it's a little
difficult for parents
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344. to absorb quite
so quickly.
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345. Something's
not right.
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346. Something's not right.
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347. Something's
not right.
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348. What is it?
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349. Why aren't any of my pictures
in the photo albums?
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350. There are no pictures
of me here at all.
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351. Jana, dear, there are
many pictures of you.
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352. Here's a picture
of you at easter.
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353. Why, there are
pictures of you
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354. decorating the christmas tree last year.
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355. Not as a little
girl, mother.
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356. There are no pictures of me
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357. as a little girl.
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358. Pictures of you and
father and the robots.
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359. Always pictures
of the robots-
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360. 10 years ago,
20 years ago-
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361. but no pictures of me. Why?
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362. I want you
to tell me why.
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363. Why?
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364. It's not true.
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365. Oh, it couldn't be true.
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366. Please tell me it's not true.
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367. Jana...
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368. you are our daughter-
you know you're our daughter-
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369. and you remember everything
from your childhood.
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370. You remember the
schools you went to,
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372. and you remember all
the places you went to.
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373. You do remember
them, jana?
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374. You've got to.
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375. Why have I got
to remember them?
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376. Because you
fed them to me?
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377. A memory track.
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378. What am I?
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379. Oh, please,
tell me what I am.
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380. It doesn't make any difference.
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381. It doesn't make any
difference at all, jana.
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382. We were childless.
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383. We had nothing of our
flesh to leave behind-
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384. nothing of our hearts,
nothing of our love.
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385. So, you see...
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386. we got you.
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387. You made me.
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388. You built me.
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389. You manufactured me.
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390. Of course, the maid
was built as a maid,
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391. the butler manufactured
as a butler,
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392. and the cook and the handyman,
all for a particular purpose.
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393. And the daughter...
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394. you built a daughter!
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395. Jana, I created you
as a thing of love.
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396. It doesn't matter
what you are
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397. or how you got here.
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398. You're our daughter.
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399. Jana, you've got
to understand that.
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400. You're our daughter.
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401. I can't be
your daughter.
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402. I'm a thing.
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403. I'm a machine.
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404. A machine!
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405. Jana, jana.
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406. No pain.
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407. No pain at all!
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408. No pain.
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409. Jana, stop it!
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410. No pain.
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411. No love.
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412. I can't
even feel love.
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413. Oh!
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414. William, what
will we do?
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415. Everything's
changed now.
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416. She'll never
be the same.
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417. What will we do,
william?
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418. William,
you wouldn't.
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419. No, I couldn't do
anything like that.
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420. I couldn't stand not
having her here anymore.
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421. I just couldn't
stand that.
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422. Jana, jana, jana...
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423. just a little
to the left, nelda.
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424. Not quite so hard.
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425. Of course, mrs. Loren,
of course.
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426. Should you be worn out
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427. by the rigors of competing
in a very competitive world,
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428. if you're distraught from
having to share your existence
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429. with the noises and neuroses
of the 20th century,
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430. if you crave serenity
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431. but want it full-time and
with no strings attached,
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432. get yourself a workroom
in the basement,
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433. and then drop a note
to dr. And mrs. William loren.
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434. They're a childless couple
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435. who've made comfort
a life's work,
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436. and maybe there are a few
do-it-yourself pamphlets
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437. still available
in the twilight zone.
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438. Rod serling,
creator of the twilight zone,
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439. will tell you
about next week's story
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440. after this word
from our alternate sponsor.
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441. And now, mr. Serling.
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442. An attractive
and rather imposing room
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443. lived in
by a man named templeton.
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444. And, like most rooms,
suggestive, really,
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445. of only a part of the man-
the outside part.
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446. Our story next week
takes off from here.
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447. Mr. Brian aherne lends us
his considerable talents
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448. in a script by e. Jack neuman
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449. called
"the trouble with templeton."
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450. It can best be described
as poignant, provocative,
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451. and a highly-diverting trip
into the twilight zone.
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452. Captioned by media access
group at wgbh access. Wgbh. Org
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453. be sure and see
the colgate-palmolive company's
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454. new comedy show
my sister eileen
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455. wednesday night
on many of these same stations.
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