The Lathe of Heaven Page #4

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dragons, all the things that we carry round in psychics, all the nightmares,

the fears? What's gonna happen when night gets loose on the world?

Are you quite finished? Your negative approach to our

It's your positive approach, that's the danger!

Solve the population problem!

See what happens!

Don't you see that these things aren't problems?

They don't have answers that you can find in your arithmetic book.

Defeatism. We were put here to make the world a better place.

Your attempts to use my dreams

that make the world a better place can destroy it!

It's not so hard to destroy the world, Dr. Haber.

We did it

four years ago, April.

I don't know what you are talking about.

Don't think that you can outthink God.

You're worn out, George.

You'd better go home, get some rest, the session is over.

- You - Go home, George.

I don't know where home is anymore.

<i>You're acting like nothing happened. My dream stopped the rain.</i>

<i>George, it doesn't rain in Portland since two years ago last Easter.</i>

<i>Oh, my God!</i>

<i>I've just wiped up three quarters of the world's population.</i>

<i>- What do you want me to say? - I want you to be straight with me.</i>

<i>Why don't you go home now, George?</i>

<i>Oh, my God! Why are you doing this to me?</i>

Damn!

George? What are you doing here?

I want the truth.

- Well, come up to my office, we'll discuss it. - We'll discuss it right here!

All right. If you insist.

I suppose I should have told you earlier, George.

I just wanted time to sort things out.

Yes, I know about your dreams. I've known for quite some time.

Thank you.

Thank you, Dr. Haber for being honest.

You have a great gift, George. Together we can learn to use it.

You can't use my dreams to change this, haven't you learnt that yet?

Isn't that the purpose of man on Earth?

To act. To change things. To run things. To build a better world.

- No. - What then?

I don't know.

I don't know. Things don't have purposes.

I don't know if life has a purpose.

I can't say that it matters. It IS. We ARE.

I wanna stop.

George I know that I can learn to harness your power

- but you must give me time. - That's no use.

- We haven't got the right. - We have a duty!

Why do you exist? Why do you feel your own power?

Because it doesn't work.

You change one thing and everything changes.

The plague didn't solve anything.

We're closer to the war now than we have been.

I can't let you use me anymore.

George,

you need me, George. You know that.

Without me you're out of control.

I want you to dream peace on Earth.

No more war,

no more mass killings of humans by other humans,

no more fighting in Asia, Africa,

the Middle East or anywhere in the world.

Antwerp!

<i>George! George! George!</i>

- Stop of it! What are you doing? - What?

I told you to dream peace on Earth.

I didn't dream that.

I dreamt about the Moon.

A battle.

A battle in space.

Alien force is attacking the Earth colony on the Moon.

I don't believe it.

I told you to dream away man is humanity to man. And what did you do?

You united the world against of the alien invasion.

What a stupid wasteful way to get peace on Earth!

Oh, my God!

What kind of monster have you extricated down of my unconscious?

I don't know what I dreamed on.

And all of it I could drag out of your unconscious.

This is incredible! Aliens on the Moon.

You must go back on them, George! Dream them away right now!

I told you something like this is gonna happen.

- What are you doing? - I'm not gonna dream for you anymore!

- Oh, that's absurd, you can't leave things like this. - I did what you told me to do,

I did what the doctors told, the lawyers. Nothing works!

- George! - No, forget it!

George!

You'll be back, George.

Without me you have no hope.

<i>George!</i>

<i>George!</i>

Yeh?

- I'm looking for George Orr, have you seen him? - No, he is gone.

Gone? Where?

I don't know. I've already dreamed a few hours ago. Who are you?

Heather Lelache. I'm his lawyer, I've got to talk to him.

Do you have any idea where he might be?

- You got some ID? - Yes,

HEW public investigator.

All right where he might be is in his cab. Why don't you drive there?

Well, a phone number, do you have a phone number?

Oh, he got no phone. Say,

- what's so important anyway? Do you do some? - Yes.

Please, do you have an address?

Oh, I don't know, it's somewhere up on the Coast Range Beach, where those

Government lotteries came. You won't find it yourself.

Thanks!

Now you know it's true, my dreams change everything.

And you see why I have to get away from Haber.

- I know. I understand. - He's making me dream. You saw what happened.

I can't let him make me dream anymore.

What happened with the aliens on the Moon.

You don't mean that you

If you only knew how really scared I'm right now.

I wish I could sleep without dreaming.

Maybe you can! Maybe I could suggest a dream.

- No. - Sure. It could be a dream about nothing.

- What do you mean? - Nothing more happens, nothing more changes.

No, it's too risky.

It'll work, I know it will. I've seen it done before. I'll just hypnotize you.

I don't know.

We have no choice.

Listen to the sound of my voice.

Relax.

Take yourself down.

Farther.

You feel relaxed and easy.

That's it. You're floating.

I'm going to tell you that you're going to sleep. And you will, but not until I say it.

Everything is heavy.

You try to lift your hand but you can't. It's heavy.

Oh, I think it's working, George.

Now, you're gonna do some dreaming. You are going to have one effective dream.

And it's going to be about

oh, my God!

I can't tell him to dream about nothing!

In this dream you will dream, everything is Ok,

dream the aliens off the Moon.

Tomorrow, when you're awaken, you will feel rested and well.

Now,

go to sleep.

<i>This is an invasion alert. An invasion alert!</i>

<i>Aliens are invading! Invasion alert! Invasion alert!</i>

- George, wake up! Something's wrong! - What's a matter?

Don't you hear that?

What did you tell me to dream of?

That everything is ok, the aliens are off the Moon.

That's it. They're off the Moon. They are here.

Come on! We've got to get back for Haber.

- Not we were trying to get away from him? - Yeh, but now we have no choice.

Turn on the radio!

<i>A new retaliation. 8 Anti-Alien Ballistic Missiles have been dispatched</i>

<i>from our underground installations in Walla Walla, Washington,</i>

<i>and Round Valley, California</i>

<i>And this just in,</i>

<i>the alien ships appeared to be carrying a device that has taken control of our Missile Guidance systems.</i>

- Where a hell have you been? - It's not important, we're back.

This is your doing, isn't it?

You had a dream without me, didn't you. I told you that this would happened, didn't I, I told you!

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