There is a fifth dimension
beyond tha t which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vastas space
and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between lightand shadow
between science and s upers tit/on
and it lies between the pit of man's fears
and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of ima Gina tion.
It is an area which we call the twilightz one.
Two, three, four.
One, two, three.
Mrs. Chester, have you ever read da vid Copperfield?
How's that?
It's a wonderful book.
There's this poor little fella and his father
has passed away and his mother has married
this miserable man called murdstone.
Isn't that a villainous name? Murds tone.
Well, this murdstone has a sister called Jane...
Mr. Bemis, you shortchanged me again.
You owe me one more dollar.
See? There's onl y24 here
and there should be 25.
Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Murd... er, uh...
Mrs., uh, Chester.
I thought there was five ones
and there's only four.
I thought I'd given you five.
I'm terribly sorry. Then there's another funny character,
called micawber, Mr. Micawber.
And he's al wa ys being sent to Deb Tor's prison.
Hm!
Then there's another character called peggoty.
That is David's...
Nurse.
Oh, well.
Yes, sir?
I wonder if I might see you in my office, Mr. Bemis?
Why, certainly, Mr. Carsville.
I don't suppose
you've read da vid Copperfield?
No, Mr. Bemis, I have not.
Now if you'd kindly
accom pany m e.
Witness Mr. Henry bemis, a charter member
in the fra terni Ty of dreamers.
A book/sh little man
whose passion is the printed pa ge
but who is conspired against bya bank presidentand a wife
and a world full of tongue-cl uckers
and the unrelen ting hands of a clock. But in justa moment
Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents,
or wives, or clocks, or anything El se.
He'll ha vea world all to himself, without anyone.
(President? Now, Mr. Bemis
I shall come to the point.
I shall arrive via the following route
which is namely, "what constitutes
an efficient member of this organization?"
Viz, a bank teller who knows his job and performs it.
I. E., an organiza tion man
who functions wi thin an orga niza tion.
You, Mr. Bemis, do not function within the organization.
You are neither an efficient bank teller
nor a proficient empl o yee.
You, Mr. Bemis, are a reader.
A "reader"?
A rea der!
A reader of books, magazines
periodical s, newspapers.
I see you constantly going downstairs
into the vault during your lunch hour.
Ultimatum, Mr. Bemis!
You'll henceforth devote your time to your job
and forget reading, or you'll find yourself outdoors
on a park bench reading from morning till night
for want of having a job.
Do I make myself perfectly clear?
That's perfectly clear, sir. It's just that,
just that what, bemis?
Make it quick and get back to your cage.
It's just that my wife won't let me read at home.
See, when I get home at night and try to pick up a newspaper
she yanks it out of my hand
and after dinner if I try to find
a magazine, she hides them.
Well, I got so desperate that I found myself
trying to read the labels on the condiment bottles on the table.
Now, she won't even let me use the catsup.
Unasked, I give my reaction to this.
Your wife is an amazingly bright woman.
I remember last November you spent the days
reading campaign buttons on customers' lapels.
You will recall the lady who took exception to this
and tried to hit you with her umbrella.
Yes, I remember that.
I never got a chance to tell her
that I was only looking to see who she voted for.
Good day, bemis.
He nr y!
Yes, dear? I'm in the living room!
You want more coffee or don't you?
No, thank you, dear.
But then why don't you tell me that,
and don't sneak off into the loving room to Bury yourself in newsprint?
I think we've been over this quite enough, Henry.
I won't tolera te a husband of mine sa crificing the art of con versa tion.
All right. What's so funny?
No, no, dear, it's just that you said "a husband of mine."
How many husbands have you got? You've only got me!
I would appreciate that not being rubbed in!
We're playing cards tonight. I want you to change your shirt.
We 're going over to the Phillips 'house.
Oh, dear.
All right, Henry. Anything to sa y?
No, dear, nothing to say.
What time do we do that?
In about 15 minutes.
I'll be ready on time.
See that you are!
Oh!
Henry?
Yes, my dear?
What have you got, Henry?
Got?
Got!
Nothing, my dear.
What's this?
What, that?
This!
Isn't that odd?
How did that get here?
I can only hazard a guess.
”A book of modern poetry."
Yours, Henry?
Would you like to read me some?
Read you some?
Do you mean read you out loud out of the book?
Do you want to?
Oh, I would love to.
You know, there are some lovely things in here.
There are one or two things from t.S. Eliot
and edna St. Vincent millay, Robert frost, Carl sandburg.
Helen.
Who did this, Helen?
Who do you think did it, Henry?
You should thank me, really.
A grown man who reads silly
ridiculous, nonsensical doggerel.
This isn't doggerel! There's some beautiful things here.
I say it's doggerel.
And I also say it's a waste of time.
Helen, Helen, don't do that!
Helen, plea se Don't do tha t!
Why, Helen?
Why do you do these things?
Because I'm married to a fool.
I can onl y tell you
tha t in adherence to duty, a cons tan t remembrance
tha ta bank, like a political office is a public trust.
These things are of the essence.
Those things are basic aboveall things.
Just the ouali ties I've mentioned.
Miss Jackson, tha t's my speech for thursda y night banquet.
Would you type tha t...
Seconds, minutes, hours,
they cra wl by
on hands and knees for Mr. Henry bemis
who looks for a spark in the ashes of a dead world.
A telephone connected to no thingness.
A neighborhood bar, a mo vie
a baseball diamond, a hardware store
the ma ilbox of what? t was once his house and is now a rubble.
They liea t his feet
as ba ttered monumen ts to what? t was, but is no more.
Helen!
Where are you?!
Mr. Henry bemis, on an eight-hour tour
of a gra ve ya rd.
They're all dead.
They must be.
Everybody's dead except
I'm all right.
Why am I all right?
I was right there in the middle of...
The vault!
I was down in the vault.
That's why I'm alive.
I went down in the...
The thing of it is, though,
the thing of it is
I'm not at all sure
that I want to be alive.
Well, I'm not going to starve to death anyway.
Lots of food.
Food enough to last for years and years and years
and years.
All the food I can eat.
All the food
and more too.
Let's see, the worst part, the very worst part
is being alone.
Is this how it's going to be
sitting around day after day
eating?
Smoking a cigarette.
Reading the same half of a newspaper
over and over,
and over
and over again.
Is someone there?
Please, someone!
Is someone there?
Someone!
No. No. No.
No. No, that doesn't make any difference.
No, it doesn't. It doesn't make a bit of difference.
It's quite all right.
This is solitude.
I've never had much solitude.
I have enough to occupy my mind and my time.
I have enough food
and I'm really very fortunate.
Yes, I'm really extremely fortunate.
Help. Help. Help.
Someone, please! Someone!
Please. Please, someone!
Someone! Please!
Someone, plea se!
Someone.
If it just weren't for the loneliness.
If it just weren't for the sameness.
If there were just something to do, do, do.
Oh, well,
I'm sure I'll be forgiven for this...
The way things are.
I know I'll be forgiven.
Collected works of dickens!
Collected works of George Bernard Shaw!
Poems by Browning!
Shelley, keats.
Grea t dra mas of the world!
Books. Books.
All the books I'll need.
All the books
all the books I'll ever want.
Shelley, Shakespeare, Shaw, oh.
All the books I want.
All the books.
January,
February, march,
April,
may,
this year,
the next year,
and the year after,
and the year after that,
and the year after that.
And the best thing, the very best thing of all.
Is there's time now.
There's all the time I need and all the time I want.
Time, time, time.
Ah, there's time enough at last.
That's not fair.
That's not fair at all.
There was time now.
There was, was all the time I needed.
It's not fair.
The best la ID plans of mice and men
and henr y bemis
the small man in the glasses who wanted no thing but time.
Henry bemis, now jus ta part of a smashed landscape
jus ta piece of the rubble
jus ta fra gmen t of what? t man has deeded to himself.
Mr. Henr y bemis, in the twil igh t zone.
Rod serl inc, the crea Tor of twilight zone,
will tell you about next week's story
after this word from our al terna te sponsor.
And now, Mr. Serling.
Next week we enlist the considerable literary talents
of Charles beaumont and invite you to join us
in a strange and shocking dream.
Our story is called perchance to dream and stars Richard conte.
I hope you will be able to join next week's excursion into the twilight zone.
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