The undecided molecule; Radio play

Lucky you you have happened to dial this program in time to attend a trial stranger than any since we first learned the knack of reading. And that was a long time back for folks listening to other stations will lose all this. Congratulations to you all for being no such fool as to miss the undecided molecule. This is a story about a tiny particle whose decision to take the matter into its own hands but was a stellar problems for the rest of the universe. Our cast today includes Don Brown Howard Green of Howard Levy Diane Sams and the big PC. Our story takes place in the not too distant future. Interplanetary checks and balances. Oh dear oh dear the cosmic alarm.

Which means I fear some woeful harm is afoot or a wing in the universe some deplorable things some act of curse like a falling sky or a new star cluster bang down by a cluster buster. Sounds to me like a dried up sea for another ice age for a spell. Well maybe it's only a freezing hail. On the other hand it might possibly be that Hitler is alive and well. But after all there is no point guessing. If it rings again in a manner pressing I'll answer the interstellar phone. Well I wish they'd leave again. Why just the last. Hello hello. Yes this is she. What. Who.

What's that. Say that again. But where but how. But if but when. Individually and so. Now wait a minute. Take it slowly. Oh no oh no not that Holy jumping Jew also for I'll call a session right away you bet. OK. Oh. Grado Molineaux damnit we are faced with a calamity. I must be clueless liquid air who sat pulling my hair. Well it is what scary at nonsense. I'll phone the secretary yet. Oh dear I am in such a tizzy. The obvious rhyme. The line is busy. I'll try again. There's no harm trying.

Answer please. I'm simply I'll say this is a 50 feet be in charge of his YOU CAM astri. Now listen here. An especially perky molecule has gone berserk. It has refused to be confined incorporated or assigned to anything. It simply sits with a calm expression that it needs. Now by all means we must prevent such an utterly dangerous precedent. One holdout molecule unpinned could cause the cosmos great for men. We must arrange this piece and try it. The charge made sighting particles to. It. OK a range at me no brain I mean all three. I mean the twain. Never mind just get it booked or else the universe is cool to me oh ma you could buy a bond. Do you remember.

The coughing operations and the duplication the physio chemical relations department of the interior of the atom criminal sitting division of Investigation charge countercharge accusation and confession is no you don't. The court will rise and face the justice who will adjust the case to see that your concentration settles on his dawn of the justice just as he enters. He is doing even now. Everybody bow everybody fall. To it. Come try to Notwithstanding your mason clerk read the charge may it please the call of it all to win. May it please the call at all to which it pleases the court get on with it.

Who's vs. home the cosmos and all the spheres symbol systems clusters galaxies orbits planets satellites together with all species of animals vegetables and minerals but appertaining they have to have all conditions of the social standing and sex vs. the anonymous molecule unit after referred to as X.. What's the charge against said molecule. Unwilling to be named rebelling when defined declining to be blamed objecting when assigned to protesting when selected resisting and attacked refusing to be directed and talking back. Most studious most dangerous so strange its almost strangeness insidious precarious a shade below nefarious. The possibilities incite a frightful meaning full of fright and a rueful meaning full of grew and grew some meaning rather grew it providing your honor the charges are true. Yes they must be proven true which is something we have yet to do. Quite right but who was asking you now is the prosecutor here present. Well then

appear appear the trials on try not to miss it step up and state your case and be explicit made pleas of the court. This case involves a very small but I don't mean mere trivial or idle chatter but a particle of not best described as a little smaller than a job even smaller than a tittle. Are you referring to molecule X yet x. Then why don't you say so I will if I may so. The point Your Honor is that should X to be acquitted here catastrophe will follow since it must then be admitted here that all control of elements has given way to act. And every substance will perforce be jittery under panicky. Thus when we want a molecule to join up with some others to make a cop or lemon drop or the catamounts off brothers to be a

fog or a catalog or a logon to be idylic on a beagle or a bagel or a mountain made of silicone. They may refrain. They may desist and if enough of them should do so they'll never be another singer like Caruso. No dog to bark no lark to hawk no grand old man like tally round nobody will be your sea no sea no ostrich fun for Sally Ride. It's how during it's all some the better by simply playing possum it makes me rather weak. Kirk order me a pony. Spirits of ammonia. No there you are. If X's rebellion is indulged I think it's only safe to say out there to be divulged. They'll never be another atom of the element ammonium So take that home and play it on your honor's own you phony I'm your man I blasted you are disapproving snort. One more phrase like that contempt of court. Now who is here for the

defense. No I am your own comments. I will I do so now. You see so I see nothing of the sort who's paying your thesis on it all the way it is with me so I'm acting out of interest of civil liberties is to do with it if you will be some kind of justice wherein the universal goal books can you find it's criminal for anything to be of open mind the precedent is it is. Let's have a sample mux known on the elements case of abysmal. This is no live. Oh drat the law books only go for best doubtlessly all fit in I'm told. Doing what you love start is not the horse before the cart. Where would we be without tradition in some advanced improved position. What young man are you read. Have you been to the crimson Brad. Neither to crimson nor to purple. Well no reverse nothing twerp will challenge me. What do you take me for a most distinguished expert on the law. First sensible thing

you've said today. Where were we in this trial by the way. You're on the right of the ex to have an open mind. Now surely justice is not yet so blind as to be on favorably disposed to reward openness of mind my mind is closed. Oh you know this is scandal. This Nazi here I can handle this. Let's have no more of your bold to do a molecule must do what it is told to do. No that's decided suppose we break for lunch. I'm famished. Been a tiring day. I sure would like to crunch our nice fresh salad bowl of crispy Tanky. You want to come for a frame from calling your first just OK. Contempt of court clerk find the counsel for defendant please. He has the brass to charge the bench with having fascist tendencies to commence and move across. Make a heavy find. How could you how can I be a fascist when I'm so benign I hardly ever beat my wife my children bow before me. I much admired by rattlesnakes and birds of prey adore me I'm tender and I'm

sensitive and anti the S. ist. I wouldn't hurt a cobra and I'm anti this section as I'm sure that's absolutely true and you're not the sort who would deny a prisoner his right to speak in court. Your might is mixed with Missy and wisdoms interviews so how about a word or two from Hicks who is accused. Know very well since your appeal is to the better side of me. Let no one say my conduct here is prejudiced or snide of me we don't hear from X but make it short. Where is the difference. Don't you write here beneath the new electronic super microscope. Swear an end but the high end on the atomic table and say as loud as you are able. I do solemnly swear to tell the truth the whole truth the buzz buzz most of all a buzz of all a flugel bugle but scuttlebutt and nothing but the truth so help me I now testify. How do you expect me to understand this and interpret it where I don't see any right at your elbow.

Oh yes I do. I'm very well. But aren't you getting up at 4 mil. But think of it. Can you understand what the molecule says that's my business is not a fake character. Like in a film by Disney Disney's not involved in this why I don't know. Where does all this lead. Then please proceed to interpret X for the court of Lex Lex's not inform law I guess which shows I too enjoy access to more than one internet. And now let's hear from your client. Proceed if you will Mr molecule. Let your story fairly leap from you. Come on come on we're waiting now. The court wants to hear a peep from you. Says as follows I cannot bring myself to be just anything that's asked of me. I cannot hide my inner soul. I must confide. I've thought it through and cannot

bear to be shampoo for oily hair. My spirit sings my fibers of nobler things and high ideals will fairly bust my heart within if I am just an onion skin. I worry so much drearier than to become bacteria and when I tried hard to a bay. My conscience cried. But still a worm for bait. Well I have my pride. I vacillate. Though Hamlet had a hard time while he was and so sad. You see by law and it's not for me to be or not but what to be my plighted side is bona fide I cannot decide like the saw I touched it. You know I thought my heart was made of steel. It is made of rubber

tormented dreams of Oh fiddlesticks. This molecule is nothing but just get so frantic. How is it that in all the time since matter first appeared each separate iota has loyally out here to a universal law without a solitary be fun to do this. If squeak came along now suddenly there is grief the order had been shaken. Earthquakes quake and oceans heave and slither and dogs and cats are not robots are enough right for the team it's now possible lost its grip and winds of its no roses if you win this week you will recall tomorrow howling ptosis. I strongly on our perch next to its smallest decimal or else the infinite One of Baal before the infinitesimal of your right what was I thinking up to. Pity I thought my heart was fairly soft when it is made of steel. I shall not spoil this molecule by sparing with the rod and so I sentence a time

before a firing squad. Perhaps a little torture first like standing at the stake and drops of water on the head wound for variety's sake little twist of the garage a slice of guillotine and X shall mark the spot where X was boiled in Vaseline. Just the sentence I asked the sentence be appealed. Impossible. Your clients pay to see you. Oh no. The court's decision is far from ineluctable. I must remind you my good so that matter is indestructible. Oh. My god Zeus hoodoos I have forgot. We can't destroy a particle. It seems we're in the parlor of this clever young upstart ical the case is lost. I must withdraw it punishments not capital. X cannot be executed I don't give a rap at all. We can't imprison it or we'd be in a most infernal stew with cosmic checks and balances eternally.

I ask you do you do you now look you here what will become of all of us. This little jerk at his strange quirk will surely be the fall of us they I suggest a means by which disaster may be evaded. My client is no pig headed may likely be persuaded to join some element or other. X is not a softy. It merely wishes to belong to something fairly lofty its point of view its forward its attitude its global its heart is set on being part of something good and noble. So I suggest you demonstrate and this will never hurt you. That being this or that or t'other as a point of virtue. Well how do you propose we do it. I have a plan and I was coming to it. Invite a representative of each important kingdom. You mean like Dempsey for the ring or the show office window no but you are warm. A line for the jungle or an eagle for all Wyndham people I remember three of them and one for every kingdom. Oh I know. Animal and mineral. And I forgot the third kingdom.

Why yes of course absurd that's splendid. We could get them here and you could make a pitch and then make up its mind to which you wish to hitch. I'll call a recess in this trial while we while running round up the trio. Meanwhile some music work. Yes. Can you sing solo me oh no but the court musicians would be very glad to play for you. Where's the conduct here is everything OK for you that. Shall I begin your honor without prelude by Stravinsky or Kolkata of forty by the famous brothers. Have you anything around that Dmitri Shostakovich wrote short of each. I've changed my mind. I know the one and started in a hurry and when they called the clotted knocked one chicken curry. Is that title correct. I fear it is okay to play. Here it is. The spokesman for the vegetable will rise and address the court concerning the advantages to

molecule acts of joining this classification with the allusions to paleontology plant psychology stems in flowers and standing examples of horticulture and company. I doubt that nothing has got quite the charm of the most ordinary turpentine and grapes that some noted ones among us still exist. Life is Life is sweet for the common spinach kale but no one could really never stops a vegetarian prays for years. Well. I am. Says the tree with chalk for wood and that he sees no special good in being a butte which people X says upon defining can come to harm in a hurricane. Grapes occurred since drinking

and cotton is worse for the ball removal is not really to look for trouble. It's not his dish. That supposed to be the choosy Mr X has a lot of cheek vegetable minerals the spokes man for the mineral kingdom will address the court concerning the advantages to molecule X of joining this classification with allusions to metallurgy Jipson filiform silver motor cost nickel Bosch pickled Rosin manganese they use now the way that x can best ensure his choice of substance will endure is to stop his flapping about and settle down to being a respectable young boy. If you like the work of Byron he can be. That sounds to me like pure non-sequitur if he wishes to be a worker he can serve in a column of mercury if he'd rather be gay and get

those radio your radio ready tongue stem talcum tin if it isn't Gen.. Alto sax and carpet tacks. Rocky rocks borax Borax. I'm never leaving Beverly cherub on Channel 5 zinc and théo not. Necessary. Yes are there already. What do they mean. Well I am fearfully hierarchs being out nigga loyally idio chromatic me create a static up fact Galland rules. That clears it up very well indeed. X want glamour need to be told of silver platter no gold and the safest job on any planet is to be a nice strong rock of granite if you like cooking dinner all boiled very nicely over a mineral oil. Does he cry to get hitched it was dark that applied to Hollywood a motor car or mineral or before

you for ever. X says that any jury will find Mercury somewhat mercurial. Iron gets rusty bare rocks to new telcos to dusting and oil is cool. The automobile is not his plant. Wanna Live to go means an accident. Google you can you simply Boxford line deep beneath the floor. I've never heard such utterly rash hypercritical balderdash. If I weren't so stately and dignified I'd bought him right on his little Baeza. Who does he think is Little Caesar. The animal kingdom present its spokesman. Come on where is the gent. Right here but you're right there I began. It's never minds one immense Well the man the spokesman for the Animal Kingdom etc. A species of good be dog fully ten men does solemnly swear

etc in the name of love a new OC Yeah kangaroo slippery day and Charlie Chan the common man and so forth that he or she will please go forth and testify to the legal court. Thank you. Gladly take the rather pretty. I could fascinate X with the mystery of considerable natural history and tell him the fame of each colorful name you know and I'm goose pimply and I could tell of a bird named this mew and another except who of the digital kind of single rose and the fish that is called Encounter. Quite true and that's called Wanda Rue. Right I could tell of the vinegar room the squatch of the baboons the antelope bongo in the Crow notice drongo join me for lunch one day. May I ask whether these names are real or fictional. Don't interrupt. They're all in your dictionary.

Now the capper Kaley has a whistle distinct from the laying on the decks so that the ends of it the terror of Tibet ring to your words like this. X to join the two cats or some other nice animal clan like the beautiful couture with a charming Gucci. But what of the species of mud. That's another subject entirely. I do not recommend that ex get involved with the affairs of mankind because you believe in the principle of matter of a man's mind. No but being human would certainly Jx a sensitive molecule like. But how do you know it's not so easy to be a common man no matter how much you work and plaid it's still a neat trick to live the span commonly allotted to the common man. A wandering breeze affect your pump if not a measle than a month. You can pull a tent and get roundly hissed or have to depend on an analyst. You can get to be under sold. Then there's rain in Spain in the common cold. A review can stink.

You can miss a guess. We told how to think by the yellow press. Did I tell you how great your dress. There's water on the knee and athlete's toes. The doctors fees in the running nose aching bursitis says rashes and rickets colitis and worse itis is in parking tickets. You can get diabetes or get caught in a rain you can run out of Wheaties or into a train. You can get nervous the NEA a blizzard can show you your wife can be mania a dentist drill you a plaintiff can sue you a bite give malaria you know love you. Yes just let me take care of fascist will fight you and then there's Asmaa vampires can bite you and whine on your plasma. You can be badly bid and flunk out in Latin not tangle your beard and spaghetti a graph and you can get a flat tire. Drop teeth in the drain or suffer dire scotch and stain can drown in the name or suffer the pains you can wind up a leper and lose all your friends. You can settle in Philly

or step in a pail of you willy nilly cease to inhale you morbid depressing in fact suicidal by the way have you even an hour that's all Your Honor my client has something to say. I could meet you. What's that about ex again. He's ready I said. Well let him go ahead. I'm glad to know the awful truth man has yet what he's done proud hands can clap circle the sun. He's redrawn the man. He flies like Lincoln who has also a card like thing he's learned to. Beat the band and goes to school to understand the molecule.

Face of all odds he makes his way. Gives Birth to quads Bales TVA this place's charms his blindfold listens to Brahms and CBS the common guy BO thinks and feels nothing's too high for his ideals. And though it cost him sadly to put down sure he's not done badly. Look at his worth. All his pains we owe him thanks and I do gladly join his ranks. Human flock has golden fleece grace to its lasting. Oh Linda. What a moving speech. I thought exo were elites but now I see he's a regular fellow. He's tweeting to me so I quiver like Joao rapture fields of clover. Looks to me like the trial is over. Why my dear ex forgive the

digression but I'm sure you'll be happy in your chosen profession. As for humans out of your crate it's slightly extralegal but have you a date for later in the evening. Do you like to dance. Have you any marked tendency toward amends. But what about the wife you seldom beat and the children you have mentioned to grovel at your feet. Oh mere rhetoric and Figment Terry frippery. The legal mind behaves this way. It's very smooth and slippery when arguing. I have no wife or any such a fixture in that case I will marry us in a class B picture will create a happy ending. Let's do children of each sex to be a part of one of them shall we invite friend X.. Magnificent idea that is off your child agreed. And I actually speed you a visit to the Rev. so he can have a life to bring this to a

clever friend. Musicians kindly take the mike and play a wedding dance. And then after that kind of finale our town. Was. Thank you. Thank you.