129- The Time Machine -John Dehner- -1

You, finding life pretty dull, dreaming again of exotic places, wishing you were somewhere else? We offer you escape. Escape! Designed for you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.

Escape with us now to the year 100,000 and 18 and a world where beauty and terror live side by side as H. G. Wells describes it in his immortal story the time machine Dudley You must be mad the time machine. Yes, my friend a time machine this This thing, this very thing, this contraction, this framework made of quartz and bronze and ivory,

with its levers and its dials and its seat in the middle. This is the result of three years hard work. I promise you, father, that on this machine a man can go wherever he likes in time.

By working these levers a man can choose his century, his year, his very day. Oh, really old man. Time is only a kind of space. If we can move about in all the other dimensions of space, why not in time too?

It's impossible, out of the question. Well, what of the journeys I've already taken on this little contraption? I'm afraid you've been having a bad dream. I mean, I've developed into a liar. Very well. You shall have proof, my friend.

How? Just climb on, follow. Sit in the seat beside me, face these ivory dials, and I'll take you for a little spin. Well, you mean right now? Right now. Or just, in case this thing should take off like the flying red horse.

Are there any preparations? No, foul, no. You won't think they luggage on this trip, not even a toothbrush. You'll be back here in my laboratory in less than a minute. All right. I'm on. Now what?