1. You're traveling through
another dimension.
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2. A dimension not only of
sight and sound, but of mind.
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3. A journey into a wondrous land whose
boundaries are that of imagination.
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4. Your next stop,
the twilight zone.
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5. The fleet's in. No, no, it isn't
the fleet, is it? It's the army.
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6. The army's in.
Hooray for the army!
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7. Get the troops out of the
hot sun. Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay!
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8. Your orders, colonel,
general, whatever you are.
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9. I'm a major.
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10. Don't fret. Advancement comes
quickly, even in the peacetime army.
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11. Today, a major.
Tomorrow, a brigadier.
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12. Major to brigadier,
that's not bad.
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13. You're generous, old sport.
You-you're really very generous.
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14. Problem?
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15. Problem? No. No, no problem.
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16. It's just that...
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17. Just that what?
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18. A couple of very
unimportant items
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19. seem to have eluded
me like, who I am.
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20. You said you were a major.
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21. Hey, wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
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22. Who are you? What
are you doing here?
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23. Is there a circus around
here somewhere?
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24. A circus?
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25. Yeah.
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26. Yeah, there must be a circus.
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27. A clown. A circus?
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28. An officer. A war!
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29. That's logic, isn't it?
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30. But it doesn't figure at all.
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31. Not at all.
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32. Why not?
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33. Because there is no
circus, and there is no war.
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34. You're just like the rest of us.
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35. The rest of us?
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36. What's going on here?
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37. Where are we? What are we?
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38. Who are we?
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39. Who are we?
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40. None of us knows, major.
We don't know who we are.
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41. We don't know where we are.
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42. Each of us woke up one moment.
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43. Here we were in the darkness.
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44. How could that happen?
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45. That's the question
we asked ourselves.
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46. A question with
no answer, major.
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47. Nameless things with no memory.
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48. No knowledge of
what went before.
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49. No understanding of what is now.
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50. No knowledge of what will be.
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51. How long will we be here?
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52. That's a very good question.
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53. That's the best question of all.
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54. But nobody knows the answer.
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55. Clown, hobo,
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56. ballet dancer,
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57. bagpiper,
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58. and an army major.
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59. A collection of question marks.
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60. Five improbable entities stuck
together into a pit of darkness.
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61. No logic, no reason,
no explanation.
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62. Just a prolonged nightmare in which fear,
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63. loneliness and the unexplainable
walk hand in hand through the shadows.
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64. In a moment we'll start collecting clues
as to the whys, the whats and the wheres.
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65. We will not end the
nightmare. We'll only explain it.
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66. Because this is
the twilight zone.
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67. Very active chap. Got to
function. Compulsive worker.
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68. You're a big-time
psychologist, huh?
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69. I'ma clown, which is neither
here, there or anyplace.
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70. I could be a certified public
accountant, a financier,
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71. a left-handed pitcher
who throws only curves.
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72. What difference does it make?
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73. We're here
because we're here
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74. Because we're here
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75. Because we're here
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76. you're wasting your time.
You know that, don't you?
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77. You're an idiot.
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78. An energetic
idiot, but an idiot.
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79. I want out of here.
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80. I'm not satisfied to sit around
here heaving deep sighs.
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81. I want out of here!
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82. You've got no
monopoly on that, major.
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83. We all want out of here.
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84. Seconded. But you're
wastin' your time, major.
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85. Each of us has gone
around like a bloodhound.
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86. Nose to wall, nose to floor.
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87. What's up there?
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88. You name it.
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89. Sky, artificial light,
fluorescent lamp,
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90. an illuminated
microscope. You name it.
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91. One guess is as
good as the other.
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92. Maybe we're on another planet.
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93. Or maybe we're on a spaceship
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94. going to another planet.
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95. Maybe we're all insane.
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96. Or maybe this is a mirage,
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97. an illusion.
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98. We're dead, and this is limbo.
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99. We don't really exist. We're dream
figures from somebody else's existence.
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100. Or we're each of
us having a dream,
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101. and everyone else is part
of the other person's dream.
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102. You call it. You can have it.
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103. That's the one thing we have
an abundance of: Possibilities.
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104. An infinite number
of possibilities.
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105. How about getting out of here?
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106. Anybody examined
that possibility?
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107. Have you, major?
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108. We're trapped down here.
There's no way out, man.
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109. This is a nightmare.
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110. It must be a nightmare.
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111. Is indeed, but
whose? Yours? Mine?
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112. The scotsman, the ballet dancer?
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113. Just whose nightmare is it?
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114. Someone knows we're here.
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115. How so?
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116. They have to. You've all been
here awhile. Possibly a long while.
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117. Someone must feed you.
Someone must give you water.
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118. Well? Someone
must bring food down.
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119. There's been no food or water.
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120. But we'll starve to
death, or we'll die of thirst.
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121. Do you feel hungry,
major? Or thirsty?
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122. Or heat or cold or
fatigue or discomfort?
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123. Or anything? Do you
feel anything, major?
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124. No, no, I Don... I don't feel
anything, but it is understandable
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125. that I don't feel hungry
or thirsty. This is...
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126. This is shock. Or the
aftermath of shock.
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127. None of us feel anything.
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128. None of us have felt anything
since we've been here.
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129. And we've been here
for an endless time.
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130. This is incredible!
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131. This is really incredible!
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132. Have you shouted?
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133. Endlessly.
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134. Well, have you-have you
pounded on the walls? I mean, loud?
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135. Have you taken off your shoe
and pounded on the walls?
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136. Have you done that?
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137. Often.
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138. Have you looked all around?
Have you felt the walls?
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139. Maybe there's a
button or a lever,
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140. or maybe there's a
panel of some kind.
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141. Maybe there's a control button.
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142. For a while. For a long
while, that's all we did.
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143. Hunted and searched,
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144. peered and looked and felt.
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145. Then we discovered that this
was the universe right here.
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146. For our purposes, this /s
the universe. This little room.
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147. What was that?
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148. What was that noise?
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149. A giant bell or something.
That's what it sounds like.
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150. Hey!
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151. Hey, up there!
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152. Let us out!
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153. Let us out of here. Please!
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154. Please, major, don't be afraid.
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155. It's hard in the beginning,
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156. but after a while...
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157. Girl, why don't
you dance for us?
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158. It makes the time pass.
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159. I'll play for you.
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160. The major's never
seen you dance.
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161. The major doesn't want to see her
dance. The major is not interested!
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162. All the major wants
to do is get out of here!
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163. Too high.
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164. Nothing!
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165. Through the wall! Did
you ever think of that?
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166. That's very bright!
Terribly ingenious!
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167. Highly imaginative!
Incredibly inventive!
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168. With what? With our hands?
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169. With our fingernails?
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170. With this!
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171. With this!
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172. Please, major.
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173. After a while, it'll
be a lot easier.
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174. Perhaps there are a
lot of dungeons like this.
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175. Maybe we've just never
heard of them before.
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176. Perhaps they're for the unloved.
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177. Perhaps that's who we are.
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178. The unloved.
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179. We must have
names. We're people.
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180. And-and that means
we belong somewhere.
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181. There must be others
who care about us.
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182. Because somewhere, somehow,
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183. we have a life that has
been cut away from us.
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184. We've got to get it
back, each one of us.
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185. We'll dig a tunnel.
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186. I know where we are. It
suddenly occurs to me.
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187. Where are we?
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188. Why, my dear young
lady, how-how unobservant
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189. when the whole
thing all fits together.
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190. Please, tell me where we are.
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191. Ladies and gentlemen,
it seems very apparent,
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192. it seems quite unequivocally,
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193. we,
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194. all of us,
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195. we are in hell.
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196. God help us.
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197. We are in hell.
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198. Never say die, that one.
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199. He'll come to it
eventually, just as we did.
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200. Let him be. Let
him have his fun.
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201. At least he's trying.
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202. He is, indeed! He's been
trying for several hours now.
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203. It's metal, I think.
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204. We'll have to think
of something else.
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205. Do! Do! Perhaps we could
pretend that we're acrobats.
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206. Alley oop!
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207. And over the top!
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208. Wait a minute.
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209. Oh, come, now.
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210. This is becoming
a little ridiculous.
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211. Why not?
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212. Why not what?
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213. What you said. Acrobatics.
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214. A figure of speech, my dear.
Not meant to be taken seriously.
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215. I Grant you that we have somehow
forfeited some of our human dignity,
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216. but we are nonetheless
governed by human frailty,
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217. not the least of
which is gravity.
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218. Perhaps you know some
acrobatics I'm quite unaware of.
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219. I see what she's getting at.
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220. Don't any of you see it?
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221. One on top of the other,
standing on each other's shoulders.
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222. How about that? Isn't that
the way they do it in circuses?
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223. I'll ask him when he comes in.
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224. I assure you that, though I may
wear the costume of a clown,
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225. I have no recollection
whatsoever of having been one.
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226. It is true we don't
feel hunger or thirst,
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227. but pain is quite another thing.
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228. And a drop from 20 feet
up down to this hard floor,
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229. that is a sensation I
would as leave do without.
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230. It's a chance.
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231. Begging your pardon,
ma'am, but no, thank you.
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232. But she's right. Itis a chance.
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233. Now, come on! We'll
go on the first person,
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234. so i-I'll start. The
clown on my shoulders,
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235. and the tramp and the bagpiper,
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236. and then the girl.
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237. Now, how about it?
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238. We'd never reach it.
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239. We could try.
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240. Who-who's to say
we wouldn't reach it?
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241. We're not sure how high it is.
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242. That's the point. We would be
exerting ourselves for nothing.
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243. Now, all sit down and we'll
have a little entertainment.
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244. Come on. Let's try it.
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245. Come on, clown! On my shoulders!
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246. Observation: Things were far
more simple before you arrived.
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247. However, I go with the majority.
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248. All right, miss. It's up to you.
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249. Can you see the top? Is
there a ledge or anything?
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250. It's several more
feet to the top.
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251. Come on.
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252. Take your time. You can make it.
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253. I can't reach it.
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254. It's just a little above me.
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255. Try. Stretch.
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256. Stretch a little.
All of us stretch.
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257. Try. You've got to try.
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258. How is your leg?
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259. I-I-I think I strained
it, but I'll be all right.
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260. How much farther? Mow
much more would it have taken?
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261. I could almost feel it.
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262. You were almost there.
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263. A miss is as good as a mile.
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264. Not in this case.
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265. A miss by two or three
inches, that's hardly a mile.
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266. Oh. Here's what we'll do next.
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267. The-the same
thing without the girl.
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268. The clown on the bottom.
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269. Then the tramp.
Then the bagpiper.
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270. Then I climb up.
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271. A rope around the
haft of this sword.
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272. Fling it over the ledge
and let it hook on the edge.
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273. Very ingenious! But hadn't
one of us better run over
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274. to the hardware store
and pick up the rope?
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275. He's right. We have no rope.
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276. But strips of cloth. Part
of anything we're wearing.
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277. Now, come on!
It's a chance! Here!
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278. All right.
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279. Six yards of excellent material.
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280. Courtesy of pagliacci,
or whatever I am.
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281. This time we make it.
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282. A rope around the
haft of this sword.
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283. Fling it over the edge and
let it hook right on the ledge.
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284. I'm up and away.
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285. Then what?
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286. We'll worry about
that when it happens.
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287. Somehow I'll get
you out of here,
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288. but none of us gets out
until one of us gets out.
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289. Now, that is a logic
that you can live with.
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290. Well, what's there?
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291. What do you see?
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292. Major, where are we?
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293. Brave man.
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294. Not a very bright one.
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295. He'll come back for us.
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296. I know he will.
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297. He may be back, but
it won't be to get us.
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298. He may have been right at that.
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299. He may have been very right.
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300. This may be hell.
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301. I found this in the snow.
Someone must have dropped it.
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302. Oh. Thank you, dear.
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303. Just drop that in the
barrel over there, will you?
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304. You don't have
very many, do you?
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305. Oh, dear, no, not nearly enough.
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306. It's for the orphans, you know. But
it's early, and we've only just started.
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307. Dolls for Christmas!
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308. Dolls for Christmas!
Dolls for Christmas!
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309. Dolls for Christmas!
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310. Open your hearts, dear people!
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311. Just a barrel.
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312. A dark depository where
are kept the counterfeit
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313. make-believe pieces
of plaster and cloth
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314. wrought in the distorted
image of human life.
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315. But this added hopeful note.
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316. Perhaps they are unloved
only for the moment.
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317. In the arms of children
there can be nothing but love.
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318. A clown, a tramp,
a bagpipe player,
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319. a ballet dancer and a major.
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320. Tonight's cast of
players on the odd stage
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321. known as the twilight zone.
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322. Rod serling, creator
of the twilight zone,
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323. will tell you about next
week's story after this message.
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324. And now, Mr. Serling.
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325. Next week, Mr. Dean stockwell
makes his journey into the twilight zone
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326. playing the role of a platoon
lieutenant on corregidor
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327. during the last few
hours of world war ii.
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328. What happens to him provides the basis of a
weird, and yet,
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329. we think, haunting excursion
into the shadowland of imagination.
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330. On The Twilight Zone next
week, Mr. Dean stockwell stars
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331. in the quality of mercy.
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332. This is James arness.
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333. You know, it's only a short hop from The
Twilight Zone 70 dodge city and gunsmoke.
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334. Saturday nights over
most of these stations.
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