New Dreams To Touch

There’s an old Twilight Zone episode that’s my absolute favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time. It’s called “Time Enough at Last” and in it Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, a bespectacled man who just wants the time to read as much as he’d like. Unfortunately his nagging wife and bank job cut into all of his reading time. He ends up sneaking down into a bank vault to take his lunch and read in peace on a day when the world is shattered by some type of bomb. He emerges to discover he’s the last man on earth. He soon stumbles across the remains of the local library. Books are scattered throughout the streets and up what remains of the library’s front steps. He’s positively giddy and Henry begins running around sorting the books into piles, ready and waiting for him to have the time to read. And he finally has all the time in the world. Until he drops his eyeglasses. He blindly searches for them until he hears a sickening crunch beneath his foot. He crushes his glasses and ruins his dream come true of having all the time in the world to read. It’s my favorite episode because I so relate to poor Henry Bemis. And this wondrous place I’ve found for you is the post-apocalyptic library of my dreams.  If for no other reason than I wouldn’t have to run around sorting the books and risk crushing my glasses.

There’s an old Twilight Zone episode that’s my absolute favorite Twilight Zone episode of all time. It’s called “Time Enough at Last” and in it Burgess Meredith plays Henry Bemis, a bespectacled man who just wants the time to read as much as he’d like.

Unfortunately his nagging wife and bank job cut into all of his reading time. He ends up sneaking down into a bank vault to take his lunch and read in peace on a day when the world is shattered by some type of bomb. He emerges to discover he’s the last man on earth. He soon stumbles across the remains of the local library. Books are scattered throughout the streets and up what remains of the library’s front steps. He’s positively giddy and Henry begins running around sorting the books into piles, ready and waiting for him to have the time to read. And he finally has all the time in the world.

Until he drops his eyeglasses. He blindly searches for them until he hears a sickening crunch beneath his foot. He crushes his glasses and ruins his dream come true of having all the time in the world to read.

It’s my favorite episode because I so relate to poor Henry Bemis. And this wondrous place I’ve found for you is the post-apocalyptic library of my dreams.  If for no other reason than I wouldn’t have to run around sorting the books and risk crushing my glasses.


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