He reads a newspaper, whose headline reads “H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction.” This is our first indication of anything of the sort, and it works, because the story is ultimately about the character, and it sucks you in that way. One day, Bemis goes down into the bank vault to read during his lunch break in peace and quiet. It’s such a horrendous action that it really makes you feel for the character, and chances are you liked him already, even if you found him ridiculous. In a scene with his wife, she tricks him into thinking she wants to hear some poetry, only to allow him to discover that she has crossed out the words on every single page of his book. When getting scolded by his boss, Bemis confesses that his wife won’t let him read at home, and that’s why he reads at work. ![]() There are a few funny lines, and Meredith plays the role perfectly awkward. These opening scenes are played as light comedy, and they work as that. ![]() We see early on that his constant reading prevents him from being good at his job, and gets him in trouble with his boss. It features perhaps the series’s strongest character and performance, and has an unforgettable ending.īurgess Meredith ( Of Mice and Men, Rocky) plays Henry Bemis, a myopic bookish little bank teller that seems to get on everyone’s nerves. ![]() This episode seems to always be in the running in people’s minds for best ever. Yet she wrote verses in great abundance and though brought curiosity indifferent to all conventional rules, had yet a rigorous literary standard of her own, and often altered a word many times to suit an ear which had its own tenacious fastidiousness." -Thomas Wentworth Higginson "Not bad.Episode 1.8 “Time Enough at Last Original air date: NovemWriter: Rod Serling (short story by Lynn Venable) Director: John Brahm A recluse by temperament and habit, literally spending years without settling her foot beyond the doorstep, and many more years during which her walks were strictly limited to her father's grounds, she habitually concealed her mind, like her person, from all but a few friends and it was with great difficulty that she was persuaded to print during her lifetime, three or four poems. In the case of the present author, there was no choice in the matter she must write thus, or not at all. On the other hand, it may often gain something through the habit of freedom and unconventional utterance of daring thoughts. Such verse must inevitably forfeit whatever advantage lies in the discipline of public criticism and the enforced conformity to accepted ways. Part of the preface to the 'Complete Works of Emily Dickinson helps sum me up as a person and an artist: "The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called ‘the Poetry of the Portfolio,’ something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of the writer's own mind. Layla, L.O.L.A.), and three cats - Burglekutt (a.k.a. ![]() Scrat, Dinki-Di, Trash Panda, Dug), Mystique (a.k.a. I currently reside in rural Montana and live a secluded life with my four dogs - Pebbles (a.k.a. Born in 1984, I started painting in 2017 and began to take it somewhat seriously in 2019. I’m a self-taught artist, originally from the suburbs of Chicago (also known as John Hughes' America).
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