WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.670 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.670 --> 00:00:08.100 align:middle line:84% Unice in Sandover guards our school room door. 00:00:08.100 --> 00:00:14.760 align:middle line:84% I'll explain that presently, but first Peter Hooten and I 00:00:14.760 --> 00:00:20.160 align:middle line:84% will read you the passage in which Unice first appears 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:22.305 align:middle line:90% to us over the Ouija board. 00:00:22.305 --> 00:00:26.970 align:middle line:90% 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:29.024 align:middle line:90% "A New Friend." 00:00:29.024 --> 00:00:32.490 align:middle line:90% 4-1-7-0, may I, master? 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:33.210 align:middle line:90% Please do. 00:00:33.210 --> 00:00:34.440 align:middle line:90% You came the other day. 00:00:34.440 --> 00:00:35.340 align:middle line:90% Who are you? 00:00:35.340 --> 00:00:37.560 align:middle line:90% I was the last. 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:39.730 align:middle line:90% I have four legs. 00:00:39.730 --> 00:00:41.040 align:middle line:90% Now this is a surprise. 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:42.270 align:middle line:90% You're from Atlantis. 00:00:42.270 --> 00:00:44.460 align:middle line:90% My green homeland. 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:46.650 align:middle line:90% Oh is it still green? 00:00:46.650 --> 00:00:48.750 align:middle line:90% I fear not, but its legend is. 00:00:48.750 --> 00:00:49.650 align:middle line:90% We ran. 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:51.270 align:middle line:90% Oh, we ran. 00:00:51.270 --> 00:00:52.500 align:middle line:90% And I was swift. 00:00:52.500 --> 00:00:55.530 align:middle line:84% Immortal, too, and lived in star-like cities. 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:57.330 align:middle line:90% Yes oh yes. 00:00:57.330 --> 00:00:58.740 align:middle line:90% So you have seen. 00:00:58.740 --> 00:01:01.170 align:middle line:84% No, but heard from your old messengers. 00:01:01.170 --> 00:01:02.190 align:middle line:90% They are death! 00:01:02.190 --> 00:01:03.810 align:middle line:90% Hush. 00:01:03.810 --> 00:01:06.510 align:middle line:84% There's an Atlantis craze sweeping the young people 00:01:06.510 --> 00:01:08.010 align:middle line:90% nowadays. 00:01:08.010 --> 00:01:09.270 align:middle line:90% We, too, were young. 00:01:09.270 --> 00:01:14.050 align:middle line:84% We saw our sires as unhappy, helpless to adapt. 00:01:14.050 --> 00:01:16.740 align:middle line:84% They could not graze on our cramped greens 00:01:16.740 --> 00:01:19.810 align:middle line:84% and did not take to our new things. 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:21.360 align:middle line:90% New things don't stay new. 00:01:21.360 --> 00:01:24.690 align:middle line:84% How would you have taken to the gadgets of a later age? 00:01:24.690 --> 00:01:27.540 align:middle line:90% Well, we were not trusted to. 00:01:27.540 --> 00:01:29.100 align:middle line:90% I see. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:31.620 align:middle line:90% A moment sparkling silence then. 00:01:31.620 --> 00:01:36.060 align:middle line:84% They say you now have astride our backs and too run as one. 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:37.350 align:middle line:90% We do, indeed. 00:01:37.350 --> 00:01:40.050 align:middle line:84% It forges a bond of strong delight. 00:01:40.050 --> 00:01:40.720 align:middle line:90% Oh. 00:01:40.720 --> 00:01:43.320 align:middle line:90% Oh, my land. 00:01:43.320 --> 00:01:44.670 align:middle line:90% Have you no names? 00:01:44.670 --> 00:01:46.860 align:middle line:90% Just numbers like the bats? 00:01:46.860 --> 00:01:51.210 align:middle line:84% Our society is so shattered, so ruined we recall our form 00:01:51.210 --> 00:01:56.280 align:middle line:84% and our green world, but we're the number of our master. 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:01.380 align:middle line:84% We do middling tasks, mind to be near and not to listen. 00:02:01.380 --> 00:02:03.030 align:middle line:90% Don't you see us in the mirror? 00:02:03.030 --> 00:02:04.620 align:middle line:90% See? 00:02:04.620 --> 00:02:06.180 align:middle line:90% Oh, now I do. 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:08.009 align:middle line:90% Look how I learn. 00:02:08.009 --> 00:02:10.050 align:middle line:90% But we are blank here. 00:02:10.050 --> 00:02:12.330 align:middle line:90% Black and blank. 00:02:12.330 --> 00:02:15.750 align:middle line:84% No light on a field, no moon on a lake. 00:02:15.750 --> 00:02:19.440 align:middle line:84% I thought the moon was made when your world fell. 00:02:19.440 --> 00:02:21.660 align:middle line:90% Four moons ringed us. 00:02:21.660 --> 00:02:23.710 align:middle line:90% They rubbed them out. 00:02:23.710 --> 00:02:27.090 align:middle line:84% So when the end came, you were attending those anchors that 00:02:27.090 --> 00:02:28.980 align:middle line:90% secured their stratosphere? 00:02:28.980 --> 00:02:30.150 align:middle line:90% That is our duty. 00:02:30.150 --> 00:02:31.200 align:middle line:90% To be near. 00:02:31.200 --> 00:02:32.490 align:middle line:90% A vital one. 00:02:32.490 --> 00:02:35.490 align:middle line:84% For here are vast numbers of others, 00:02:35.490 --> 00:02:38.160 align:middle line:84% all aimless, drifting as gnats do. 00:02:38.160 --> 00:02:39.390 align:middle line:90% We have work. 00:02:39.390 --> 00:02:41.850 align:middle line:84% We are reprieve from life's loss, 00:02:41.850 --> 00:02:45.060 align:middle line:84% need not mourn life upon life, but have 00:02:45.060 --> 00:02:49.020 align:middle line:90% our one, our fixed green loss. 00:02:49.020 --> 00:02:55.170 align:middle line:84% They say God calls us his first born and I, the last of these. 00:02:55.170 --> 00:02:57.480 align:middle line:90% Tell how it was. 00:02:57.480 --> 00:03:01.740 align:middle line:84% Our low gray roof ripped one day. 00:03:01.740 --> 00:03:11.190 align:middle line:84% I peered up and ran, ran, then fire, then silence 00:03:11.190 --> 00:03:14.940 align:middle line:84% as the great greens fell in on me. 00:03:14.940 --> 00:03:19.830 align:middle line:84% Oh then I'm here and my master calling, come, 00:03:19.830 --> 00:03:21.240 align:middle line:90% you were the last to die. 00:03:21.240 --> 00:03:23.490 align:middle line:84% I am the last of mine to be made. 00:03:23.490 --> 00:03:25.260 align:middle line:90% So come. 00:03:25.260 --> 00:03:26.490 align:middle line:90% And so-- 00:03:26.490 --> 00:03:29.070 align:middle line:84% Would your master's number be 741? 00:03:29.070 --> 00:03:30.000 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:31.770 align:middle line:90% He was not of our undoing. 00:03:31.770 --> 00:03:34.260 align:middle line:84% I take his simpler thoughts to others. 00:03:34.260 --> 00:03:39.360 align:middle line:84% Go here, go there, but now I'm always here for he 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:43.650 align:middle line:84% calls the shining space our own pasturage. 00:03:43.650 --> 00:03:46.800 align:middle line:84% If you approach when no one they allow is near, 00:03:46.800 --> 00:03:50.250 align:middle line:84% I guard the gate, for this is now the-- 00:03:50.250 --> 00:03:52.680 align:middle line:84% Cup fairly cantering, hot damn, he's 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:54.240 align:middle line:90% getting better all the time. 00:03:54.240 --> 00:03:55.470 align:middle line:90% I am? 00:03:55.470 --> 00:03:58.410 align:middle line:90% For this is now the new center. 00:03:58.410 --> 00:04:01.140 align:middle line:84% Your master, does he treat you well? 00:04:01.140 --> 00:04:05.940 align:middle line:84% Between the different kinds, our God has laid the law down. 00:04:05.940 --> 00:04:07.680 align:middle line:90% Dignity. 00:04:07.680 --> 00:04:10.650 align:middle line:84% But you and we are the same kind, 00:04:10.650 --> 00:04:14.640 align:middle line:84% in part electric currents, quickened brain and heart. 00:04:14.640 --> 00:04:19.160 align:middle line:90% And so it is a godlier bond. 00:04:19.160 --> 00:04:20.000 align:middle line:90%