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Dr. Hanson assured me that the experiment would be both painless and simple.
"If the experiment is a success," he assured me, "the entire transportation system will be revolutionized."
I stood and gazed with awe at the intricate maze of machinery.
"When you stand here with yourself pressed against the large piece of glass" he explained, "a cathode ray will begin scanning you and thus converting you into electro-magnetic impulses enabling me to transmit you to any part of the world in a split second!"
Naturally I was skeptical of the Dr's invention. It sounded like utter nonsense, but we had been life long friends and I felt that I must humor him so I stood before the large electron gun where he could scan and convert me into electro-magnetic impul ses. I pushed myself against the plate glass. Dr Hanson pushed a switch and the weird operation began. During the few minutes that the tubes took to warm up I began to wish that I hadn't consented to do this experiment. Soon the aparatus was ready to operate. He switched on the electron gun and in less than a micro-second I was wiped off of the glass and hurled thru space! I was conscious of hurling thru space. Then I felt myself being pulled down. I "saw" a television antenna coming tow ard me and then -- blackness.
I must have been unconscious for a millionth of a second for when I woke I was being pushed thru the video amplifier of someone's television set. After flowing thru all the tubes, resistors and mica condensers I was finally hurled with tremendous spee d onto the face of the kinescope!!
I hit with such impact that my whole body was infused with pain. I tried to run but only succeeded in knocking myself against the sides of the tube. The nite was long but soon the dawn came - I could see into the living room of the house which would be my home for the rest of my life, for I was a prisoner -- locked inside the cramped 12 1/2 inch kinescope!!!
If you would like to see me just tune channel 14 ... and I have been tele-transcribed for re-broadcast off the co-axial.
So, until we meet again ...
Bon Video!!!
by
Kirby
Data entry by Judy Bemis
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