oldhollywood:

“Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He’ll have a world all to himself, without anyone.”

“The best laid plans of mice and men and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis…in the Twilight Zone.”

-Rod Serling, “Time Enough to Last” (1959) (online here), The Twilight Zone

My God, I can so relate to this episode. I’m blind as a bat without my glasses and read a lot. Although I’m not a misanthrope, people treated this guy horribly.

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    When I look at this,...I see is Futurama.

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    All-time favorite TV series EVER. Marathon every New Year’s Eve.

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    I’ve never actually seen this episode of the Twilight Zone, but I think it’d be my favorite one if I ever got the...

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    TWILIGHTZONETWILIGHTZONETWILIGHTZONETWILIGHTZONE.

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    One of my favorite episodes. I still think about what he could do—go to the eye doctor’s office and try everything on...

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    This episode always makes me incredibly sad. Damn you, Rod Serling!

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    Never let this happen

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    I saw this episode for...couple weeks ago at...50th...

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    Time Traveler. Hope it’s going well back east. End transmission.

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