Unknown Broadcast | Carnival in Vienna & Chicken Heart: Killer Clown and Biological Apocalypse
“Carnival in Vienna” brings a deadly clown to the edge of the Iron Curtain; “Chicken Heart” unleashes an experiment that may consume the world.
In “Carnival in Vienna,” American traveler John Allison enters a shadowy Austrian carnival where a roulette game promises uncanny knowledge of the future. The attraction becomes a trap involving a murderous clown, armed pursuers, and Russian soldiers beyond the border. What begins as Cold War intrigue turns into a desperate escape through a place where entertainment, espionage, and death share the same midway.
Arch Oboler’s “Chicken Heart” shifts from political suspense to apocalyptic science fiction. A fragment of chicken heart kept alive in a laboratory begins growing without limit. As the expanding tissue escapes containment, scientists, officials, and frightened citizens confront a biological mass capable of swallowing cities and reshaping life on Earth.
The double feature moves from a sinister European carnival to one of old-time radio’s most famous tales of uncontrolled scientific ambition. Killer-clown suspense, Cold War danger, mad science, and cosmic-scale body horror make this an unusually varied night of vintage fear.
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Ah, so good to see you
back. Well, my dear, welcome,
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welcome. I've picked a scary couple
for you tonight. So before we
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begin, though, are you prepared
for your holy days? They're coming up
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fast. They're always coming up faster
than you realize. You're going to spend
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those some special peeping good, good
good, that's what I like to hear,
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my dear, what's that? Oh
no, no, no, no
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no, don't worry about me.
I'm exactly where I have to be.
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But this story will help me and
you escape. This is about a celebration
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about a carniff carnif in Vienna.
Vienna a beautiful city. Have you been?
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Have you been? Oh? Well, hopefully there's plenty of time for
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that in the future. So relax, please put your feet up. I'll
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make you a hot cup of tea
to make sure you're war as the story
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chills chills, it's quite all right, my dear. Let's begin in a
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moment. Tired of the every day
grimes, I have a dream of a
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life of romantic adventure. I want
to get away from it all. Whey,
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off, are you escape? Escape? Design your free you from the
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four walls of today. For a
half hour of high adventure. You are
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stranded with a carnival just the side
of the iron curtains. We're out of
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nowhere. A fortune is within your
grass, riding a number on a roulette
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wheel hundreds of feet high, while
with your shoulder laughing at you a killer
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clown from whom there is no escape. Listen now as escape brings you.
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David Freegon and Morton fine story Carnival
in Vienna. In the old days the
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Royal of Tenements used to be called
the shutting Off. And there was a
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war, and it was called rubbles, and it was cleaned up and it
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was just an empty space in the
older part of Vienna. That's where the
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carnival set up. Betch and windstands, wheels, the midway act of the
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high wire for a valley, rides, pom readers and the biggest Perris wheel
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this side of the rhyme, twenty
carriages and a four minuted ride, and
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myself front gate Superintendent John Ashcroft Allason, a nice founding name, John Ashcroft
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Allison. The help calls me hair, which is mister. That's the way
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it is. And there's Lily who
works at gas whenever it's needed. He's
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got red hair. We get along
five Hannah, thank you. Every time
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you pass a shiny thing and you
or anything, stop and open. I
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looked at your hair. One of
the good boys. Next time ten dollars
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American money, maroon shirt, think
choke, can't hel and all you liar
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what you mean? Liar? You
are vain, you are powering, You
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have nothing to be powdered. You
hate you, you are you are you
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mean? Don't go up on another
everyone you when you will plane your hair?
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Oh? By one of these days
back to the STA. You'll never
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go to the thing. You cannot
I know, Joey tell you that's nice
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and go. I did not want
to. Oh, I bet you didn't.
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Oh, I did not want to. Hear Joy told me you thought
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I stayed. The story was the
carnival of a man who went right.
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And once the guy wrote down his
name for me to analyze. My favorite
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thinking that you're in four for three
months, all over the place before they
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almost caught up with me one day, I would have told you you didn't.
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I didn't do anything then. And
he told me, and he told
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me how you played from your country
to your He hasn't let me, and
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how you been settling all kind about
the kind that's what that's literally I'm going
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to get my hands on that.
Don't wanted to do something about that clown?
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Why should I do something about him? If in hand, by the
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way, laugh But if wooden clown
and mechanis listen to listen to handle,
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it's a purely mechanical love. Compared
you to put them up into my heart
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of mills might be upset you annoys. He makes it come only I wouldn't
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I had commanded, but as easy
had I as if you knows your name
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and love that you and knows you
stop and bring like a peacock and love
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that. I just want to tell
you something because my advice change the record
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in that honey clown finally yank,
but you want to if you have a
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final shoes laughing huh answer, Oh
it's not. Sady's laughing at you.
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Let's forget it. I oh why
the enemy a video? I tell I'm
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not a kid. I love you
want to phone thanking apartment? What's the
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man joey joey? Yeah? Are
you going? Just wait? I see
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him without the sunny pick doctor killing. I want to be let's take a
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look set about here, Julie,
back of a tread. What's for that,
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kid, I, jil what's not
a few than friends? Haven't we
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jumped into each other in a silver
bar? And but he's right off shore
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beside the fact you're unless you're a
good boy, good friends, good shield
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for any Connie in the world.
Right, Oh, I don't mind it.
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Took a drink and spilled a lily
about me. One way or another.
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She had to find out, Well, what's this all about? Heisted
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the wallet just now? Huh?
I'm a guy tourist turret. Huh.
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He was with a bond from Maxi's. He had to be a tourist.
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The way he was dressed, green, short and feather in his head.
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I'm taking no one talk to me
like that. Close to dead, I'm
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telling you. Come on, Joe, I will take a lot of that.
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Joey. Yeah, here Joey and
tack of shake. Sure, yeah,
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let's see sup? All right?
Oh, Mike want the mad card?
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Gord, Wait a Doe, Joe
you already let the wait a minute?
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You know what, Joey, you'll
never know five mile some friend of
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mine. What they want tet up
to you? What Joe will catch up
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to you. They wouldn't go w
I didn't look at him anymore, not
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at Joey that John Ashcroft Allison looking
out at me from the aluminum side of
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the trailer, and I'm amount of
a ten dollar tie and he winked back
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at me, and his lips shaped
the words I was saying, tiny three
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thousand dollars letter of credit in mister
Paul Max Wallat, complete with identification card.
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So I looked around for the green
short a man with a feather in
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his hat with a blonde from maxim
and the way it happened, I bumped
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into them coming out of a mirror. I trailed him over to the ferris
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wheel, watched mister Max fat down
and changed a couple of tickets. Wait,
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didn't they get into a carriage in
a wheel? And I walked over
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to get a ex operism A hell
working on qushed his wheel. Don Hey,
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how about you and Miley? I
never got to see although she works
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right over there. We only get
to wave then and we are both off.
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Ther boy men comes, why don't
you go over and calculate? Sure,
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go ahead, I'll take over the
wheeling. It would didn't like to
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see money go on treat it got
biggest party on the side of the river,
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twenty carriages in a formative ride.
Mister Paul max From bought the mask
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and the green one with a blonde
enjoying to keep him in the carriage like
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get it twenty three thousand dollars alf
with a trick twenty to one shot.
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Scoop a handful of sand and gravel
off the ground into the oil, intake
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another handful another four minutes or fourteen
times around eight times and nothing happened.
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Whine and eleven. We could win
the world, find a gap it and
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come up bringing up my hand on
the man. Maybe it wouldn't work too,
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Maybe I needed another gimmick. Maybe
I ye, parente went why carry
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bringing parently wind my maid, all
my water and the carrying out. Then
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I closed my eyes. Yeah,
when I opened on the wheel that stopped
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spinning. Carriage at the top was
green, and I knew there wasn't a
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chance of that wheel coming down for
a long long time, and there wasn't
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a ladder that high that could get
them down. Twenty three thousand dollars on
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a twenty to one shirt. I
just hit you are listening to Carnival in
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Vienna, the night's presentation of Escape. Edgar Bergen fans will be doubly delighted
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with the new Edgar Bergan Show with
Charlie McCarthy. Remember Sunday nights on most
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of these takens, the New Edgar
Bergan Show with Charlie McCarthy. And now
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back to Escape and the second act
of Carnival in Vienna. Carnival and the
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big Wheel not spinning anymore against the
Vienna sky, and for a little while
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the small riot of Carne wound down, no attraction at it to early afternoon
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with a Danube close out of kids
cup to it climbed the girders and hung
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from them like skinny rag dolls and
kicked their feet into water's face. It
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was going crazy trying to fix the
ferret wheels and a small the tail of
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Russian soldier stuff to a tool rnning
up at the merchandise display of black cotton
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stockings, boy Indian petticoats, and
at the very very very top, oh
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very a gent from Boston, mass
with his arms wrapped around a blonde from
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everywhere. I told out of the
handle, it's the best way he could.
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I'd round up some refugees to give
my hands, and I walked away
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from it down the midway, half
the gaster, past the shooting gallery,
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passed him past the flies as where
the Connie started to die and got to
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be mud and litter and broken straw, where the trailers were mine bright and
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shinier than the red because there was
a displaced fawline, very handy with a
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Dutch claws, the needed to work
the job class in penmanship, uh gentle,
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the writing hand school, circles and
plant And then Johnny Allison into Paul
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mac gents from Boston. Mat oh
Max, Oh mah, what you're doing,
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Johnny boy. See what you're doing, Johnny boy. The bottle of
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schnaps over the cup of Jewey drink. You're so kid. Huh huh,
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no, huh huh. Maybe you
don't understand because you're fuzzed up. You're
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not wanted Joey. Oh, now
that hurts, but it's when you said
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to an old friend, but you
could buy back my affection. I like
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them, Johnny, Honey, I
don't want not to like the lush,
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need the lush. Don't talk like
that, Johnny. You made a noise
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like twenty three thousand dollars. When
I hear you laugh, I don't know
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the angle, but I won't end
half. Johnny impediently dreamed about them further.
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That's her picture of money. What
was you doing when I come in?
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Johnny? Written a letter practice and
maybe there no feelings digits, just
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says you let me see, Johnny. You didn't even let me spee.
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But I got something I wanted you
to see, Johnny. I brung it
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just to show you. Oh,
Joey, Joey, you're really our fight,
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don't you. Uh No, all
this your gun does, Johnny,
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all it does in the world is
to make you and me, buddy.
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I squeeze it on it just a
little bit, and all it says you.
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Hear it, Johnny, All it
says is buddy boy, body like
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it was a mama dog. You
say, half me, Johnny, say
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half to twenty three grand I don't
sueeze them all. Give it me,
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Joey, give me the gun and
then you can go hp the shops.
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Final yimke, Joey, you can
squeeze the shop. Just sit right down
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on Johnny so he'll go off between
your eyes. Hear me, Joey,
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I'll drop it, I'll throw it
away, kim me give me sure nobody
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you for a sucking Johnny boy.
You helped me up, and I was
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ye, Johnny got to be drink
just like this. He was as dead
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as I could make him. I
picked him up, carried him to my
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car, prop your body in the
front seat next to me. Whoever may
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have seen it figured the only thing
to figure. Joey was sowned again.
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Johnny Allison was nice than him,
like he done one thousand and two times.
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It took fifteen minutes to drive out
of the edge of the Russian zone,
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belong it to a square block of
rubble behind it, to an alley.
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I opened a bottle of schnop I'd
remember to bring along benched out my
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mouth with it, and boored the
red down Joey's trophy. I shot the
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bottle into his coat pocket, eased
him out of the car. What was
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in the alley with some garbage cans
scraped clean, some bony dogs who just
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stared, and a no name rush
in a trailer might half past one.
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I could forge the signature of mister
Paul mac with a pen between my teeth,
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eight letters, straight up and down, with a couple of curls in
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between. By two, I was
in the Vienna State National Crank and it
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strut tut noon, sir, What
can you do for your titter noon?
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Your new business with me? To
that my hair? Yeah, my letter
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of credit high identification card. I
am Paul Max who boxing the messages?
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Of course, well let's give it. Of course, of course, have
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none something nothing, nothing but nothing. Everything is in popular. That's only
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years. All I want seeing you
telephone yesterday informed because you would not come
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here until ten tomorrow morning. Oh
you mean we can't do telephone yesterday because
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off noon. Surely you're doing member, surely I do remember my here something
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came up between my plans, so
I hear now this afternoon. Did I
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make a difference? No, no, no, surely no. I told
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you that it gets a short no
to get the money five thousand and fifty
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dollars, but not twenty three thousand
thousand. Myn Here that's the notation I
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have here. I show you here, that's your telephone yesterday, that you
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would come tomorrow. That is a
five thousand, though you do somebody made
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a mistake. I look at that
ideal. I need every cent left on
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my letter of credit twenty three thousand
cash dollars with or American make a choice
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of course, apartment from that?
Give you sign this for me so that
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I may compare signatures the formality only
I want to depend aka yahm tang it
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and now only moments longer. I
must corroborate the machine. That's the formatic.
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Oh sure a wait, whoa what
m h m hm h I it's
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all of it should be missed from
that. Your money's in this path of
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you. Three thousand dollars, thank
you? My name? Another thing to
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sign the receipt? Oh yeah,
I don't know, I know, mhm
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h, thank you? Should you
understand them? The necessity of caution.
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However, there's the thing if you
don't mind, I'm in a hurry.
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What's eating you? Oh? Does
it? Seed? How doesn't then see
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you? When I can step into
a bag ask for ten thousands of dollars
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and getty? M hm m good, feels good, wonderful. M yeah,
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it's Johnny, baby. Oh what
have you seen? Come here?
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Oh baby baby? An hour and
I missed you kind of fool mum hum
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over. John's excitement did even stop
in a minute, the very top of
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it screaming and timing city at your
home. How is a man to Yeah?
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Yeah's funny, Lily Laving, Yeah
yeah, what do you want?
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Lily? One of the greens Paris
Rome, London. Dream one over me,
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Baby, Johnny Allison makes it come
true and I grab a coat,
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Lily in this minute, it's all
you living need. Yeah, it's going.
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I told you, whatever ride you
want, whatever bubble to lay against
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your neck, to your fingers and
your toes. Is the money you have
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saved the front gate superintendent to the
cheap size Peace Cannivent with twenty three thousand
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dollars. Jesus, what are you
talking about it? Like I always said
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I would twenty three thousand dollars.
Come on, cover it with a coach?
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Will you get such money? John
What difference? It's green? It
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makes a funny sound, and rub
together, make it whisper and advise.
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Mank for you and soak for me
like I saw once in the shopping room
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baby for stuff room. Sir,
Johnny can look good, So Johnny can
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look swell? So Johnny can you? S I promoted it? Baby?
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You start it from the American who
screams from the top of the bell me
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baby me, Johnny Alison, come
on, get out. I want no
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part but you. You're talking to
Lily, the man with the promises,
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the man with the dreams. So
don't call me dream men, men of
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nothing, Lily, not. I
loves a baby. Not with you.
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Harmis men, dream men. You've
feed men of angers and gimmick them.
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Come morning, true anything else you
need to say, you have joy and
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lush. Dunk down with your heads
down, with your stupidity, don with
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your tongues. Joe, Joe,
Joe, it's Johnny Ellison. Who is
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Joe Joey Joy? No Joy?
Shouldn't call me that Joy. You shouldn't.
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I stood over for a long time, all the time that we needed
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her, fingers done, clenched and
trail along the floor for the life to
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go out of her, and then
get out. Walk, don't run to
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the midway crowd in the parish wheel
moving now midway in the Palace of Fun.
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I'm back edged to the world through
the hall of mirrors, and I
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was on my way Hans the cloudland. At this time I didn't care Johnny
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Allison on his way with twenty three
grand to take him wherever he wanted to
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go. All a mirror. I
know it like a book, like I
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knew the backup, back to my
hands. So turn the corner way.
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Sometimes a guy forgets Alison fun hall
of mirrors. They had time to get
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in. It's fun trying to get
out. Whoever I went, Johnny Allison
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came right back at me. I
wasn't telling ellow be trying to be the
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tenent dodge easy. I didn't see
myself. I wouldn't be there when I'm
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what. I couldn't get along too
many, too many with me. He
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didn't look like her anymore. It
didn't look like anybody. I don't yeah,
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like killing me me like you the
way he said said okay, yeah,
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I think is there on the floor. Uh to kill a girl,
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then to hide in the hall of
mirrors stupid perhaps, Not For here a
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man can laugh at death Johnny laughs
ag And here a man can observe himself
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in a thousand mirrors agents from every
anger. That is, if a man
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can stand looking at himself. H
m hmm. Escape has brought you.
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Carnival in Vienna, a story written
and directed by David Freakin and Morton Pine,
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featured in the cast with Jack Moyles
Willingham biased, Jack Crusian and a
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SONRAI also heard where Barney Phillips,
Robert Boone, and George Baroni. You're
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an author, George Walls. The
special music for Escape is spled unconducted by
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Leif Stephens. Ah. Oh,
I'm sorry, here's your tea, grown
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stone cold. Well, allow me
to freshen that up for you, my
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dear. Well, well, that
story had a lot to it. But
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this one, this one I find
a little more devious, A little dark
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dark, something a little more here
here, simply called Chicken Hawk. I
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feel the title will reveal itself to
you as you listen, So relux let
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me freshen up your tea. I
know it gets so cold down here so
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quickly. These thick concrete walls,
well they give this air as if there's
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no escape from me. And perhaps
they're right, But but that's neither here
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nor there were there. But what's
that? Oh no, no, no,
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no no, I'm sure you'll be
fine now, relaxed, and we'll
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start this story that I've dusted off
from my collection in just a moment.
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Do you remember, some time ago
in an Eastern scientific institution, they kept
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a peace of heart alive for weeks
on end. Well, I got to
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thinking, what if the heart began
to grow and grow and grow? Grow?
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Hello, go a lot right to
give me, mister Reagan, Fast
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love, mister Reagan, this is
Lewis. Listen, get me a rewrite.
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Man. The things still grow,
no cheap. I tell you the
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truth. That cardor's choked with living, crawling flesh. No, no,
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no, I'm not drunk. I'm
telling you the truth. That little piece
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of place is brown into us,
jamming that building all inside the space of
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an hour. You've got to believe
me. It's the greatest news story of
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the generation. And here you argue
with me. I tell you it's the
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truth. You've got to believe what
you believe me. I tell you the
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only hope is to burn the building
to the ground and run. Now,
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wait a minute, do wear take
it? I tell you, burn it
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to the ground, burn. I
tell you take it easy. I send
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it a call. Oh don't you
understand. For some reason, I cannot
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even imagine. This tissue is doubling
in size every hour. So you know
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what that means. In another hour, it will be twice the size it
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is now, and long before that
it will break open the building with the
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force of its pressure. And then
it will be free in the street,
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free in the street. And then
those those tentacles of protoplasms stretching out to
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feed on anything they can reach.
You get it. See the walls were
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wounds, were wounds, you say
to warn them. Now it's just too
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next the heart is free. M
m m gottment, come to order,
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please, gentlemen, please quiet,
quiet, please please please. Now that's
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Mayor. No one realizes more than
I do, the necessity of immediate action
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incurring this unspeakable, unbelievable emergency.
When I am showing you the highest speeches.
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Matt. That basket thing is spreading
like a forest fire. Calm the
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governor say, wait, wait,
wait, please wait here is doctor Albert
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to the church is to step up
here, doctor Tuesday. Gentlemen, it
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was in my institute this horror began. And if you give me a chance,
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perhaps I can stop it. What
is it? Doctor tellispers that monster
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really is? Yes, yes,
I will tell you that great, ever
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growing mass of flesh it is,
or it was a chicken heart heart?
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Are you crazy? Man? I
tell you chicken heart. Listen to me,
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you pull. I tell you that
mass of flesh was a chicken heart,
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the tissue of which, for some
reason is undergoing constant, rapid accelerating
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growth that every passing hour its growth
is doubling. Do you know what that
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means? If it is now one
block in size, within thirty hours,
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that cannibal flesh will have increased in
size to one square block, to the
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thirtieth power. In thirty hours us
every inch of this whole city will be
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crushed under that moving flesh. Within
sixty hours, it will uncovered the entire
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state, within two weeks, the
entire United States. You asked for the
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national God, I say, called
out the entire army, blessing of the
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already keiths covers already all holes.
Is trouble. We'll flood that thing with
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water from all angles, all right
here up see without the fools, what
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good is water? I told them? The only hope is artillery bonds.
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All National Guardsmen report to your arm
range. All National Guardsmen report to your
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arm range, General momilation batterian positions, sir, that's very well out,
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yes here where useless. This has
grown too large, It grows too quickly.
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The freshies already in gulfing with guns. They came too late. You
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are right now, doctor Robins.
Yes, yes, I'm all right as
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to day all well, I sure, I am glad I located you.
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I stole as long as I could
another ten minutes, and we couldn't have
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taken off That lasted protoplasm or whatever
it is, was sucking at the wheels
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at the time we left the ground
ass as I saw. I well,
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we'll go was around up here for
a few minutes and then head west.
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It will do no good. You
can't mean it. It must stop growing
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sometimes, it must look at it, the great blankets of evil covering everything.
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See how the roads are black with
men and women and their children running
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for their lives. See how the
protoplasmic gray reaches out and engulfs them.
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Stop talking like that, we'll get
away. The government will send bombing planes
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poison gas. O. Listen to
the Lewis. You remember, only a
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handful of days ago you asked me
my prophecy of the end of the earth.
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You remember my answer, Oh,
such a scholarly prophecy, sessation of
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earth rotation, mighty sounding astronomical theories. But now this is reality, Lewis.
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The end has come for humanity.
Not in the red of atomic fusion,
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not in the glory of interstellar combustion, not in the peace of white
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cold silence, but with that creeping, grasping flesh allow us. It is
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a joke, hey, lewis a
great joke, the joke of my husbands,
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the end of man cash because of
the chickens. No, no,
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we won't die. I can't die. I'll find a sleep, finding somewhere,
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I'll find a place cut out.
We're in a spin. I take
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it out of it. I told
you doom. No, no, old
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mankind, doom. No, we're
falling right into it, into the heart.
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Well, I know you may have
been expecting something I don't know.
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I don't know that different. But
there's something about the rhythm bum bom bom
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bom bom bom bomb, much like
the rhythm to your favorite songs. It
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brings you joy, it brings you
life, but also eventually the ceases.
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Well look at me going on and
on when it's gotten so late. Soon
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the sun will be back up,
and I'll need the return to where I
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come from. And you should return
to your beautiful home, your comfortable bed,
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your warm pillow, and as you
make your way home, as you
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lay your head down for the nice
night snaps. Remember I'll be here waiting
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and be thankful for what you have. You remumbling privately, prett
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