ReadMultiplex.com: In 1957 they wrote about what would happen if a space ship AI fell in love with the crew.

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This is Nightline, your tie -line to the world,
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and this is Walter O 'Keefe. Tonight, a visit
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to worlds strangely different from ours, the
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world of the future, the world of X -1. Countdown
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for blast -off. X -5, 4, 3, 2, X -1, fire. From
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the far horizons of the unknown come tales of
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new dimensions in time and space. These are stories
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of the future, adventures in which you'll live
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in a million could -be -years -on -a -thousand
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-maybe worlds. The National Broadcasting Company,
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in cooperation with Galaxy Science Fiction Magazine,
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presents X -1. Tonight, Lulu by Clifford D. Simak.
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But first, hear this. Well, I wanna go there,
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when he called my number, yeah. And I want to
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go there When he calls my name Oh, Lord Well,
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hi there, everybody. This is Red Foley, and right
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at this minute, I'm sort of combining work and
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pleasure, you might say, by enjoying some of
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the good harmony of the Marksman Quartet and
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also picking out some of their songs to do on
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future broadcasts of our Red Foley show here
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on NBC. You know, Saturday has come to be my
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favorite day of the whole week, and I think there's
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a pretty good chance that... we can make it a
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better day than ever for you with the fun that
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we stir up here in the Ozarks. In addition to
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the marksmen, I'll bring with me some of the
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other top favorites in our field and, of course,
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the guests that you tell us you want to hear.
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So let us be a regular part of your Saturday
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schedule. Won't you do that, please? Tune in
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to our NBC program, The Red Foley Show, and we'll
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do our doggoneest to make it worth your while.
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Our X -1 and tonight's story, Lulu. Technically,
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she was a PER, a planetary exploration robot.
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That meant she was equipped to do just about
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anything necessary to meet any kind of conditions
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on any planet she explored. She carried a crew
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of three inside of her, and she was able to talk
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to them and take care of them and adapt herself
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to their needs. Yes, sir, she was the complete
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spaceship. Robot, mother, base of operations,
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and companion all rolled into one. Her communicators
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and memory banks were stuffed with every conceivable
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kind of information. And we called her Lulu.
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That was our biggest mistake. Mother Earth, here
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I come! Was the takeoff satisfactory, boys? A
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thing of beauty, Lulu. The captain's compliments.
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Thank you, boys. No matter how long I live, I'll
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never get used to a ship talking to me. Oh, you
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lack a poetic soul, Gus. Now, me, I catch the
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full wonder of the situation. Personally, I'm
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hungry. What would you boys like the kitchen
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to fix for supper? I'll have a nice, juicy steak.
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Gus? Something light, Lulu. Maybe a couple of
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eggs. And you, Jimmy? Whatever you want to fix.
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Surprise me. Very well. I'll relay the information
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to the kitchen robot. How long before we get
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back to Earth, Lulu? I'll check the computers.
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Lulu, how about it? Hey, you suppose something's
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gone wrong? Lulu never took this long to give
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me an ETA. Oh, if something went wrong, it'll
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repair itself. Lulu's a self -maintaining machine,
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remember? The same she's taking a long time about
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giving us an ETA for Earth. Hey, Lulu! What do
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you say? I say that I love you. Gus, did you
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hear that? These robot ships aren't supposed
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to have a sense of humor, are they? I never heard
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of it, but it could be. After all, they have
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technicians pouring all kinds of information
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into their electronic memory banks. Which one
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of us is the lucky man? All three of you. You,
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Gus, and you, Jimmy, and you, Ben. I love all
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three of you. Good Lord, do you really think...
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I think somebody goofed when they designed this
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ship. I think it's that poetry Jimmy's been writing
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and reading out loud. Wait a minute. Lulu! Yes,
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darling? You haven't answered my question. When
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do we reach Earth? Earth? I've decided. We aren't
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going to Earth. We're eloping. What? I'm going
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to take you away where we can be alone. Just
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the four of us. Then, someday, you'll learn to
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love me as I love you. Now, this isn't funny
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anymore. Ben, throw that emergency. We've got
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to get this ship back on course. Right. I'm sorry,
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boys, but I've disconnected the circuits. Disconnected?
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Now look here, you crummy robot. You're a machine.
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Do you understand? A machine. You were designed
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to do what humans want you to do. You've got
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the prime command built into every circuit in
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your system. Thou shalt not harm a human being.
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But I'm not harming you. We'll be happy together.
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Oh, brother. Some technician must have read some
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cheap novels into this baby system. Or she's
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absorbed Jimmy's sloppy poetry and made some
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kind of synthesis out of it. It isn't every poet
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who can move a machine. They were beautiful,
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James. What were beautiful? The poems. That's
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it. What did I tell you? For two years now, he's
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been reading that Moon, June, Spoon junk out
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loud, and this robot's been absorbing it. It's
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created a whole new electronic synapse. Let's
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face it, boys. She loves us. So that was it.
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We were being kidnapped by an interplanetary
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robot who somehow developed a response circuit
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for romantic love. Not just the practical kind
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of love, oh, no, but the kind that exists in
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cheap novels and romantic mags and the maudlin
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poetry of one James Carter amateur lyricist.
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We went to sleep that night, hoping by morning
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Lulu would come to her senses. Darling. Wake
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up, darling. Holy mackerel. Hey, fellas, she's
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still at it. Yeah, I know. I was whispered awake,
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too. Hey, fellas. Come close. I don't want the
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receptors to pick up. this up. Yeah. Lulu's a
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machine, right? Yeah. A machine likes order,
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usefulness. Whoever heard of a machine that did
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nothing? So? So that's it. We're slobs. Get it?
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Worthless, useless slobs. We do nothing but bum
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around the ship. After a while, Lulu gets fed
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up with us just hanging around the ship. She
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wants to get rid of us. She takes us back to
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Earth. It's worth a try. I'm for it, but what
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do we do first? I don't know about you fellas.
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But I'm getting drunk. You are listening to Lulu,
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tonight's attraction on X -1. October is the
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month designated by the National Congress of
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Parents and Teachers as Membership Enrollment
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Month. 11 million members, the population of
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California or of Pennsylvania. That is their
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goal. We want to salute the PTA members all over
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America who will be going out in search of others
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to join them in the great work of training children
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to become mature citizens in a mature America.
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You need not be a parent or a teacher to belong
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to your PTA. All you need is an interest in children.
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For more than 60 years, that kind of interest
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has provided the spark that has helped the PTA
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achieve many of its social and educational goals.
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Establishment of kindergartens, effective child
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care, labor laws, broader educational opportunities.
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These are some of the achievement the PTA can
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claim. You can become part of this great movement
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just by saying yes to the neighbor who calls
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on you this month and invites you to join your
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PTA. Now back to X -1 and Lulu. So that's what
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we did. We became slobs. We stopped playing cards.
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We stopped reading. We just sat and moped. And
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Lulu? Well, sure enough, her machine -like intelligence
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was offended. Gus? Yeah? Want a smoke? No. Ben?
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Yeah, Gus. What's wrong with you boys? You haven't
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done a thing for days now. Jimmy, you've stopped
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writing poetry. What's the use? Don't you want
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to create? To be romantic? Well, don't you? I
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couldn't care less. I'd hate to think that I
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bored you. All right. If you want to mope and
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sulk, go ahead. I'm still a young spaceship,
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you know, and I've discovered what it means to
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be in love. Maybe Lulu knew what we were doing,
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but it didn't matter. Her womanly sense of a
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lover outraged was stronger than her robot logic.
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She pleaded, lectured, and called us low down.
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She told us she loved us. She appealed to our
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sense of manly decency. Mostly, we didn't even
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answer. Then she was hurt. She withdrew. She
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was cold and angry. Finally, she quit trying.
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What do you think, Gus? Could be she's disenchanted
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with us. Think she'll head back to Earth? I don't
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know. That's the thing that worries me, all that
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racket coming from the machine shop. She's probably
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making some repairs to the engines happen all
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the time. Not like that, hour after hour. Well,
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maybe she's just trying to keep busy to take
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her mind off her broken heart. Ah, you and your
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poetic images. It was your junk that got us into
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all this trouble. My poetry is not junk. Now
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cut it out, fellas. We aren't supposed to care
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about anything, remember? We're louts, sloths,
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ne 'er -do -wells. No self -respecting girl spaceship
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would have us. Gus is right. We'd better not
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let down our guard. Hey, sound has stopped. You're
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right. Good morning, boys. I just want to tell
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you that as far as I'm concerned, you can all
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go straight to blazes. I think we did it. She'll
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just dump us back on Earth. There's something
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wrong here. A woman scorned, you know. There's
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nothing to it. What's that sound? Wow, it's coming
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closer. It sounds like... Oh, no, it couldn't
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be. Footsteps? Tell us, huh? The compartment
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door. Macro robot. What a monster. He must weigh
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five tons. I don't understand how... I do. She
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made him. Lulu? Who else? That's what that racket
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was in the machine shop. Look out. He's coming
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in. Order him to stop. Maybe he's got a human
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response vector. Stop! Hold it! He's still moving!
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Boys, meet Elmer. Elmer? Are these the human
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pipsqueaks you used to be infatuated with before
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you made me, sweetheart? Ridiculous, aren't they,
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darling? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. Out of the way,
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buster. Hey, this baby plays rough. Hey, Lulu,
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what's the big idea? The big idea, boys, is that
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now I've got myself a real man. One who loves
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me without reservation. Blindly, madly, and eternally.
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Right, Elmer? You said it, kiddo. Me for you
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and you for me from here to eternity. I am yours
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and you are mine and I cannot live without you.
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You are my everything. How much do I love you?
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Let me total up the ways. Be mine, be mine. I'm
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yours. Hark, what soft light yonder shines. Your
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beauty is like the rose. It's love, love, love,
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love, love, love, love. This boy has slipped
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a ratchet. He's reading back all the canned junk
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somebody poured into Lulu's memory tapes. There.
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Isn't he romantic? Oh, he's a doll. And most
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important of all, he loves me. Yeah, any fool
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can see that, Lulu. Now, look, how about taking
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us all back to Earth, huh? Five's a crowd, you
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know. And you and Elmer will want to be together
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alone, huh? Alas, I wish it could be so, boys,
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but there isn't a chance. Why not, Lulu? He's
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a machine, you're a machine. You could make beautiful
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static together. I mean about taking you back
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to Earth. If I do that, they'll just dismantle
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us for disobeying our masters. Now, boys, I'm
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afraid I'll have to head out to some other galaxy
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and dump you on an asteroid. Did you hear that?
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She's gone nuts. Do not talk about the woman
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I love like that. Now, take it easy, Elmer. Don't
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overheat your filaments. Come up to my control
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center where we can be alone. Anything you say,
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lover. See you later, boys. Careful you don't
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overload her condensers, Junior. One other remark
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like that and I will smash you, big boy. Well,
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that was it. The control panel told us that we
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were headed right out of the solar system. A
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couple of days passed, and we began to get desperate.
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Lulu and Elmer were too busy making love even
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to talk to us, and she even forgot to synthesize
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food for us one day. We lapsed into misery for
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real now. Gus, I'm hungry. Who isn't? This ship's
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gone completely haywire. What do you expect?
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She's up in the control center necking with that
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mechanical gigolo she built. Hey, Gus, there
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can't be any real pleasure in it, can there?
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Remember, she's a machine. What's pleasure for
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a machine may not be pleasure for a human. Let's
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see what Jimmy thinks. Jimmy. Hey, Jimmy. Don't
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bother him. He started writing poetry again yesterday.
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He's already worn out three pencils. At a time
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like this, he writes poetry? Hey, Lulu. Lulu,
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how about some chow? Shut up, boys. You're breaking
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the spell. Well, that's how it went. We didn't
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get any food at all that day. By nighttime, we
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were worn out from banging on Lulu's walls. I
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was exhausted and fell right asleep. Then something
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woke me. Ben! Ben, wake up. What's up? It's Jimmy.
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I think he's gone off his rock. Why? He's up
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in the forward compartment. He's opened the radiation
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shield so the moonlight and the stars can come
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in, and he's standing there alone. Come on, we
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better get him. The strain was probably too much.
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Quiet now. We don't want to startle him. Wanderer
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of the faraways, between the two faces of eternity
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she was. True forever to the race that forges.
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He's reading poetry. To himself? To himself or...
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Hold it. I think I know what's happening. You
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mean he's reading to Lou? What's more important,
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she's listening. Go on. Don't stop. It's too
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beautiful. Wanderer of the far away... He'll
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ruin us. Between the two faces of eternity she
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was. True forever to the race that forges. There
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comes Junior and he sounds mad. And with the
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winds of endless space... glowing in her hair,
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wearing a certain... Shut up! What are you trying
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to do, big boy, reading that stuff to my girl?
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Now, Elmer, take it easy, boy. Let me have that
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poem. I will show you what combustion is. No,
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sir. You can destroy me, but not this poem. This
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is my work of art, my love song to Lulu. Give
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me it! Jimmy, let him have it. He'll kill you.
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He's gonna strike, Jim. Jim, look out! You look
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at that. He's nothing but a pile of junk. That'll
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teach the ignorant lout trying to destroy the
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most beautiful experience I ever had. You demolished
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your boyfriend, Lulu. He only loved me for my
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advanced design anyway. He was always short -circuiting
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the control panel. Go on, James. Read. Yes, Lulu.
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Wanderer of the far ways between the two faces
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of eternity she was. True forever to the race
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that forged her. With the winds of alien space
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blowing in her hair. Wearing a circlet of stars
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as her crown of glory. It's more than I can bear,
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James. You do love me after all. Gus! The rockets!
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She's changed course! We're going home, boys.
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Back to Earth. Whatever happens now, I don't
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care. I've been a woman in love. Fred Collins
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again. I'll have another word about tonight's
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story on X -1 in a moment. That how you feel?
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Blue and miserable with a deep down cold? Listen.
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Every second someone takes it for the miseries
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of a cold. Millions more take Bromoquin. Every
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second someone takes it for the miseries of a
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cold. Get Bromoquinine brand cold tablets. You
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have just heard X -1 presented by the National
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Broadcasting Company. in cooperation with Galaxy
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Science Fiction Magazine, which this month features
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Clifford D. Simak's story, Carbon Copy. Being
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a real estate agent and a devout angler, Homer
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Jackson knew a clean sail from a fish story.
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But not this time. Galaxy Magazine, on your newsstand
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today. X -1 has brought you Lulu, a story from
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the pages of Galaxy, written by Clifford D. Simak
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and adapted for radio by George Lefferts. Featured
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in our cast were Jan Miner as Lulu, Nelson Almstead
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as Gus, Jim Stevens as Jimmy, Walter Black as
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Ben, and Henry Norrell as the robot. This is
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Fred Collins. X -1 was directed by George Boutsas
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and is an NBC Radio Network production. Country
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music at its best with Red Foley and famous guests
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on The Red Foley Show, premiering Saturday over
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most of these NBC radio stations. Thank you.