The Long Morrow

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Springfield! Springfield!


The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


The mind does work.

There are images, patterns, things to recollect.

It's not just the long, deep sleep that comes when the fear has left.

The cold is felt, the slipping away of feeling is noted and then succumbed to.

The mind functions.

Time is distorted, jumbled, telescoped, accordioned, but there is a sense of time even so, and i remember things.

I remember the way it began.

I remember the way it was in the beginning.

Come in, commander stansfield.

Dr.

Bixler.

Please be comfortable.

The figure of speech, commander.

Be comfortable in the sense that there's no need to stand on ceremony.

But there are no seats, either.

I've heard much of you, doctor.

I of you, and that's the reason you're here.

You've been an astronaut for 11 years.

Is that a question, sir?










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The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


Once, they offered us challenges.

Where is the next mount everest, doctor? That's perhaps the most pertinent question you've ever asked.

This is a planetary system to date seen only through the lens of a telescope.

We know nothing of it except for there are six bodies one of which we can only assume is the sun.

It's flaming and gaseous and it must provide heat and light for these five bodies here.

It's a small system like our own.

The planets run roughly in the same orbital pattern as we do around our own sun.

Does it have a name? You may call it stansfield's mount everest.

That's where i'm going.

When? In about six months.

The ship's being built now.

It's off the drawing board.

The keel is being laid but it'll take only one man, and that man should be right there watching every rivet, every bolt, every item of equipment going in there.

You are that man, commander.

You will be sole occupant and you will be its pilot.

Doctor, i i like this assignment very much.

That's precisely why you were chosen.










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The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


You are 31 years old, commander.

When you return from this trip, the earth will have aged almost half a century.

That's something to contemplate.

I'll be over I will have lived the better part of my life out in space and alone.

You will have lived the better part of it, but you will not have aged.

We intend to try something new, also a risk, also decidedly calculated.

Freezing? An extension of that but much more complicated.

It'll be a suspended animation in its purest form.

We've developed a substance from the lymphoid tissue of hibernating animals plus several vitamin absorbents and a collection of drugs.

The earth will have aged, commander, but you will not.

You'll be only a few weeks older when you return.

Sort of like dying and coming to life again.

After a fashion.

But coming to life again in the sense that there'll be very few people here that you will know or who will know you.

Life will have changed, commander.

You'll have to begin living it all over again as a stranger, as a well, as an anachronism, if you will.










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The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


I've known you for exactly three and a half hours- that's what it's been three and a half hours- a long dinner and a short dance.

And already already already what, sandy? Already i feel a sense of loss.

My life had been space.

It had been missions, projects and expeditions.

There had been no time for intrusions that took the form of a woman's face, a voice, a short month of a man and a woman drawing together, becoming a part of one another, reaching tentatively into that strange and mysterious pond of love and then watching the ripples that came from it.

But now i think of these things, now they come to mind, now in the darkness, in the cold, the solitude, the stillness, the loneliness.

Now there comes a feeling of warmth.

Sandy where are you now, sandy, across the void? My dear sandy, through the millions of miles of cold, empty space, through the vastness of a naked desert of sky and stars, i love you.

I love you, sandy.

Minus 2-30.

Small, unofficial gesture from one of the lesser bureaucrats of our good, respectable government.

Unofficial and very much apart from protocol.

But i couldn't let you leave, doug, not without saying good-bye.










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To: Kerry Burgess

Sent: Mon, June 12, 2006 1:23:57 PM

Subject: Re: Journal June 12, 2006

Kerry Burgess wrote:


Early this morning, I suffered through about the first half-hour of Fast Times At Ridgemont High until I got bored and changed it.


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The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


I'll be the little old lady in the lace shawl.

The one waving the "welcome home" sign.

So look for me.










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The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Long Morrow


He reached the other solar system.

Yes, he reached it.

He landed, he took off, he returned.

He found no life.

But we found that 20 years ago.

That's one of the ironies of progress, miss horn.

Could have saved the trip.

Could have saved him his anguish his anguish being the following: Unknown to us here on earth, to my predecessors and to theirs, because of the lack of communication, commander stansfield arbitrarily removed himself from hibernation six months after leaving earth.

He did this because i know why.

Oh, god help me.

I know why.

Over 40 years, miss horn.

of a ship.

His loneliness must have been something brand-new in the human experience.










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MODEST MOUSE


"Space Travel Is Boring"

Won herself a pass to some far off moon
It was second class but what's to lose
And looking out her window she could more than assume
That you can't see air or time
She's the only rocketeer in the whole damn place
They gave her a mirror so she could talk to a face
She still got plenty lonely but that's just the case
With time, time, time
Started hearing voices sometime in June
She knew she could go crazy but didn't think that soon
Now she doesn't feel lonely but she'd just as soon
Try, try, try try
Man shot to the moon
I read a paperback and want to come home soon
I'm shot to the moon
Been there a half an hour, I want to come home soon










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The Twilight Zone Season 5 Episode 15

The Long Morrow

Aired Unknown Jan 10, 1964 on CBS

Quotes


(Closing Narration)

Narrator: Commander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten pioneers of the space age. He's been pushed aside by the flow of progress and the passage of years--and the ferocious travesty of fate. Tonight's tale of the ionosphere and irony, delivered from--the Twilight Zone.



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 11:00 AM Pacific Time somewhere near Seattle Washington USA Friday 10 January 2014