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the year was 2081 and everyone was

finally equal they weren't illegal

before God in the law you see they were

equal every which way

nobody was smarter than anybody else

nobody was better-looking than anybody

else

nobody was stronger quicker than anybody

else and all this equality was due to

the 211 212 and 213 amendments to the

Constitution and to the unceasing

vigilance of the United States

handicapper general the strong or

weights to make them weaker the

intelligent or earpieces that kept them

from taking unfair advantage of their

brains even the beautiful sometimes wore

masks and situations where their beauty

might simply be too distracting it was

the Golden Age of equality some things

about living still weren't quite right

though

April for instance continued to drive

people crazy by not quite being

springtime and it was in that clammy

month that the HD men came to take

George and Hazel Bergeron son Harrison

away

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you are fixing the TV dear

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I bet that was a real pretty dance that

dance she just did that dance I bet it

was nice

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what was it this time

loud same as last time

it sounded a little like somebody

hitting a milk bottle with a ball-peen

hammer from here it must be very

interesting to hear all the different

sounds all the things they think up it

isn't only if I was the handicapper

general you know what I do

I'd have chimes on Sunday just chimes

kind of kind of in honor of religion

good things straight if it was just

chimes well then maybe I'd make them

real loud then I think I make a good

handicapper general you would

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boy that was a doozy wasn't it yeah

you seem distracted hon what what are

you thinking about it straighten my head

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you must be tired why don't you stretch

out on the sofa so you can rest your

handicaps on the pillows you're always

so worn out if there was just some way

we could virus it I'm not saying all the

time I'm just saying maybe when you're

sitting around the house hazel if I take

them off I'm gonna want to keep them off

and we both know how you want to feel

about that I'd hate it so nothing to be

done then

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we interrupt our broadcast of the

National Ballet Sleeping Beauty for

important breaking news I don't

understand why they dinner up such a

nice ballet just to tell us the same old

news

what does it matter if they just shown

the same old ballet good good good

evening

we've just received a warning from the

handicapped had he kept the head he kept

up the heading up and through the head

that's all right he tried that's the

important thing

I think he should get a nice big raise

for trying so hard

oh I think I'll get started with the

business

good evening we've just received warning

from the office of the handicapper

general that suspected anarchist

Harrison Bergeron has escaped from

custody arrested six years ago for

propagandist vandalism broadcast piracy

refusal to report for his quarterly

handicapping evaluations and for the

blatant removal of his handicaps in a

public place mr. Bergeron had been

awaiting trial in a maximum-security

prison here in Washington DC when he

miraculously disappeared from his cell

earlier this evening

please be advised that Bergeron is a

genius and an athlete is under

handicapped and is considered to be

extremely dangerous

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if you see this man please contact your

local authorities immediately thank you

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ladies and gentlemen distinguished

guests from around the world may I have

your attention please

there's a bomb beneath this theater and

there's a detonator in my hand

so I strongly suggest that you remain in

your seats

now my apologies for interrupting this

evenings entertainment hopefully I can

provide you with some of my own my name

is Harrison Bergeron I am a fugitive at

a public threat I am an abomination of

the abel I am an exception to the

accepted I am the greatest man you have

never known and for the last six years

I've been held prisoner by the state

sentenced without trial to torture

without end they had hoped to destroy in

me any trace of the extraordinary and in

time I came to share that hope

but the extraordinary it seems was

simply out of their reach so now I stand

before you today beaten hobbled and

sickened but sadly not broken and I say

to you that if it is greatness we must

destroy then let us drag our enemy out

of the darkness where it has been hiding

let us shine a light so that it lasts

all the world can see

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northwest copy that immunity what's your

status

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and now from my next trick I'm gonna

need a volunteer no one come now perhaps

one of you

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bomb has been disarmed copy that

Sancho kill the broadcast

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enough

just here

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copy that all units stand by for entry

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that one sounded kind of like a gunshot

hun if you look upset what's wrong

Oh

oh yeah said the television time you

should forget sad things anyway I always

do

yeah I could tell that one was a doozy

you can say that again

gee I could tell that one was a doozy

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