The Pale Man: Room 201

Fictional

Jason Weiser

Arts, History, Books

4.9 • 6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A professor checks in to a rundown hotel for a long vacation and becomes obsessed with another resident - a pale man who moves from room to room.

Adapted by the Weisers from "The Pale Man" by Julius Long

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Music:
"Andelo" by Blue Dot Sessions
"Velda Tallow" by Blue Dot Sessions

Theme music by Breakmaster Cylinder

Transcript

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0:00.0	Why can't I have Room 201?
0:14.2	The man asked.
0:15.8	The clerk looked again at his books from behind the counter.
0:19.1	Nervously, he brushed the little toothbrush mustache, the type that, though popularized by
0:24.0	the movie star Charlie Chaplin, as well as the new chancellor of Germany, would sharply
0:28.9	fall out of style within a few years.
0:31.7	Looking up, the clerk informed the new guest that they had planned on him being in Room
0:35.9	212.
0:38.5	And why can't I have Room 201?
0:40.7	I'm here on vacation and it faces southeast.
0:43.9	I want to wake up with the sun.
0:45.8	Is there even anyone in 201?
0:48.3	The clerk shook his head.
0:50.0	No, no there wasn't.
0:51.6	It wasn't exactly in season.
0:54.6	They only had one more long-term guest on that floor, actually.
0:57.6	An old lady.
0:58.6	But you see, they had planned on him being in Room 212.
1:02.6	They had prepared Room 212.
1:05.4	Well then, prepare 201.
1:06.9	If there isn't anyone in it, I'll take it.
1:09.6	In fact, I will not accept no for an answer.
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