Escape from the Planet of the Apes Page #4

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- Wedded?

- We'll take that up later, Your Eminence.

Cornelius, do you

and your lawfully wedded spouse...

speak any language other than English?

What is English?

I speak the language taught to me

by my father and mother...

who were taught by their fathers

and mothers before them.

It has been the language of our ancestors

for nearly 2,000 years.

As to its origins, who can be sure?

The gorillas and orangutans

of our community...

believe that God created the ape

in his own image.

And that our language

Nonsense!

Cornelius, as an intellectual,

you know damned well...

the gorillas are a bunch

of militaristic nincompoops...

and the orangutans a bunch of

blinkered, pseudoscientific geese!

As to humans, I've dissect

I- I've examined thousands of them...

and until now, I've only discovered

two who could talk in my life.

God knows who taught them.

Where we come from...

apes talk.

Humans are dumb.

Where do you come from, Cornelius?

I'm not sure.

- Dr. Milo was sure.

- Oh.

Dr. Milo was a genius

well in advance of his time.

When the spacecraft

first landed on our seaboard...

it was Dr. Milo who salvaged it.

He studied it

and, uh, half understood it.

Half? Was half enough?

It was enough for us to escape

when war became inevitable.

Enough for Dr. Milo

to be murdered in your zoo.

Enough for my wife and I

to be here now.

- From where, Cornelius?

- I told you. I'm not sure.

Maybe the female knows.

Of course the female knows!

We came from your future!

That doesn't make any sense.

It's the only thing that does.

- Mr. Chairman.

- Yes?

Cornelius, you spoke of war.

- War between whom?

- The gorillas and whoever lives- lived.

- Will live.

- Who won the war?

I don't know. Chimpanzees are pacifists.

We stayed at home.

- But you left before the war had ended.

- In a spaceship.

- Which Dr. Milo learned to navigate.

- Correct.

Cornelius.

Did you know a Colonel Taylor?

No. Is he a soldier?

Look, we are peaceful creatures.

We are happy to be here.

May we be unchained?

Here they come.

Gentlemen, do you have

No. No comment. No comment.

- No comments.

- No comment. Sorry.

- General?

- Mr. Chairman!

- Mr. Chairman, a word.

- I'll give you one preposterous.

- Well, can you define that, Mr. Chairman?

- Uh, no. Just let me say this.

As head of this commission,

it will be our duty...

to sift through the facts

of this bizarre affair...

and pass our conclusions on to

the president of the United States...

for implementation.

- What a load of hugger-mugger.

- Dr. Hasslein.

- Oh, Dr. Hasslein!

- No comment. No comment, please.

How will you advise the president

to handle this unique situation?

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