The Color of Time Page #3

It's a great deal.

I just take care of the horses and...

- Didn't know you liked animals.

- I do, I do. I've never ridden a horse.

But I have a dog I love very much.

Just keep your hand flat.

- Yeah. Fingers out.

- Don't take my fingers.

Alright. If he gets... If he goes...

Keep your hands flat.

- Feels funny.

- Don't give it to him till...

- Don't let him do the tooth thing.

- They're already all gone.

This is Webster.

Other one's Wylie. He's the oldest.

Something's wrong

with his back hoof. He's...

kinda hobbling about.

I keep him in the smaller pen

so he can't walk around so much.

You okay?

Come on, this way.

So here it is.

They said they can level it with stones.

They just need three layers,

then they can start

putting in the pillars.

One'll go... out here,

one there and there and there.

How long is that gonna take?

They said about six months.

Oh.

What?

No, it's great.

I think I ate something weird.

Let's... let's go back

and get some water.

No, no, come on.

Wylie?

Wylie!

You're gonna be okay.

"It is a long while since the issues

of mortality have taken me this way.

"Shivering, I tramped the thin, bitten track

to the first rise, the first descent,

"no comfort here, nothing to say,

to try to say, nothing for anyone."

Jed.

Time to wake up.

Jed?

I see.

Someone ordered the tickle.

Alright.

Don't want to wake up, get the tickle.

Yeah?

Like to get tickled. Alright.

Coming right up.

Coming right up!

Yeah? Like to get tickled? Alright.

- Good morning.

- Good morning.

With regard to it,

it wasn't an accident.

This is the failure

of a piece of machinery.

There's also a bubble in the reactor vessel

that means that any change

in the hydraulics in the core

have to be closely monitored...

"All morning, a crew of workmen

"have been tearing the old,

decrepit roof off our building.

"And all morning, trying to distract myself,

I've been wandering out to watch them

"as they hack away at the leaden layers

of asbestos paper."

All safety equipment

functioned properly...

"It's the first morning

at Three Mile Island,

"those first disquieting, uncertain,

mystifying hours.

"We still know less than nothing."

...this point, we believe there is still

no danger to the public's health.

Metropolitan Edison

has been monitoring the air and...

Hey.

We didn't wake you up?

This guy, he was sleeping too?

What my dad used to do.

He used to steal my nose.

Alright, I'll put it back.

Do you want to help me

give Daddy a haircut?

- Yeah.

- How'd you like that?

Do you think we should shave

all of Daddy's hair off?

No?

"Surely we suspect now

we're being lied to."

...is still occurring inside the primary...

"I remember the President

in his absurd protective booties

"looking absolutely unafraid...

"the fool."

"But in the meantime,

there are the roofers.

"I never realised

what brutal work it is,

"how matter-of-factly

and harrowingly dangerous.

"And there I am at my window, gawking."

...radiation from the facility

approximately 20 minutes ago...

...opt to stay indoors

as a precautionary measure,

you know, until they hear further...

A lot of people are leaving

the Harrisburg area...

"However much we didn't want to,

however little we would do about it,

"we'd understood...

"we were going to perish, all of us,

"if not now, then soon,

"if not soon, then some day."

"Be here now," she said.

Just be here.

Just be here.

"I think I know,

though I might rather not,

"why my roofers stay so clear to me

"and why the rest dims some."

...to leave the area

within a five-mile radius

of the Three Mile Island facility

until further notice.

Let me stress once again

that the historic record of nuclear power

has been an excellent one.

This is the first significant

nuclear accident

that we have experienced...

You okay?

- Sorry.

- No, it's okay.

It's okay.

I don't know.

Look, I'm... I'm sorry...

it's taken so long.

I love you.

I'll see you soon.

"No comfort here.

Nothing to say, to try to say.

"Nothing for anyone.

"Her silence,

"how to begin to speak of it?

"I think sometimes

I must have simply gaped.

"There were harmonies in it,

progressions, colours, resolutions.

"It was a symphony, a tone poem.

"I seemed to live in it.

"It was always with me,

"a matrix, background sound,

"surf, wind.

"Also, I'd found a girl

to be in love with.

"All we wanted was to live together.

"So we did."

Thank you.

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