The Man Who Fell to Earth Page #4

must lead kind of interesting lives too.

- d Get it offe my shoulder - I know I'll

never be like a character in a story.

I'll just be like

everybody else.

Well, maybe, maybe, maybe.

I don't know.

- Maybe someday.

- dAnd make the world go away

There are now

six subsidiaries under the holding company.

I don't know how accurate you want

the account figures, but they change hourly.

Yes, we receive bank statements

on each company twice a day.

I want the total figure

by tomorrow.

Give it to me to the nearest

$50 million.

And the utility dropped very slightly.

The volume, 11,850,000 shares.

The average issues up -

The more secretive you are

about your life...

the more it arouses

people's interest.

We've had some chemistry professor

from Chicago...

who's been calling and writing.

That's not so terrible, Mr. Farnsworth.

Why don't you talk to him?

Don't be unfriendly.

- Mary-Lou.

- 686 issues up. 568 down.

My life is not secret, Mr. Farnsworth,

but it is private.

Among the most actives

today is World Enterprises.

Up five points on the day,

trading over 300,000 shares.

Wall Street analysts

and company officials report...

they know of no reason

for the sudden interest -

For a whole year

I concentrated equally on two things.

F***ing and World Enterprises.

It was neck and neck.

Well, I have to admit that I...

It began to look like Canutti was right

because World Enterprises...

was evasive and slow to reply

to my persistent letters and calls and...

Suddenly, I got this letter

from Farnsworth.

I'd landed a job in the research department

of the fuel division.

Strangely, after that...

I gradually began to lose my interest

in 18-year-olds.

I don't know what happened to me.

I'm not sure.

But my mind had developed

a libido of its own...

and I didn't need the stimulation oflegs

and so forth.

The salary was terrific too.

It was three times

what I'd been getting.

The first thing I did

is I ordered a French car.

This upset Canutti

more than anything else.

Last time I remember

feeling so exhilarated...

was 10 years back when I'd been

experimenting with heat photography.

It came to nothing, of course,

because academia got in the way.

But this time...

I knew I was gonna be given

a proper chance.

And you know how I knew that?

Because I had faith in myself.

What I didn't know then...

was someone else

had faith in me as well.

This will be your final call.

Continental Airlines,

Flight 241, the Golden Jet...

nonstop for El Paso,

ready for immediate departure...

...service to Tucson and Phoenix.

Dr. Bryce.

I'm Oliver Farnsworth.

Um, I thought you

were based in New York.

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