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- I'm afraid. They're so real.
- They're only an illusion, that's all.

9 seconds sound clip from the X Minus 1 - The Veldt by Ray Bradbury classic radio drama series.

You can hear this line at 00:09:06 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Take it easy, Lydia. They're just illusion.

- The lions were fifteen feet away, so real, so startlingly real, you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your mouth was stuffed with the dusty upholstery smell of their heated pelts...

- And the yellow of them was in your eyes like the yellow of an exquisite tapestry...

- The yellows of lions and summer grass, and the sound of the matted lion lungs exhaling on the silent noontide...

- The smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths.

- I'm afraid. They're so real.

- They're only an illusion, that's all.

- Watch out! Out! Quick! Outside!

- They almost got us.

- Now, take it easy. Calm down.

- I could feel their breath.

- Get a hold of yourself, Lydia. They aren't real. Walls... that's all it is - crystalloid walls.

- They look so real.

- Of course they do. But it's all dimensional, color reactionary process and mental tape film behind glass screens.

- It's all odorophonics and sonics.

[...]

X Minus One Sound Clip

X Minus OneQuotes with audio samples from the old-time science fiction radio drama series "X Minus One" that was broadcast from 1955 to 1958 on NBC.

Actors: Fred Collins (Announcer), Wendell Holmes, Bill Zuckert, Peter Capell

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