The Glittering Gate TITLE OF SOURCE: AUTHOR'S NAME - FIRST: LAST: DESCRIPTION: Visual Text JIM<br><br>You'll never get through those gates, Bill. You'll never do it.<br><br>BILL<br><br>They're only gold, Jim. Gold's soft like lead. Old Nut-cracker would do it if they were steel.<br><br>JIM<br><br>You'll never do it, Bill.<br><br>[Bill puts a rock against the gates, stands on it to reach the lock and gets to work on the lock. A good instrument to use is an egg-whipper. Jim goes on wearily with his work. As Bill works away, fragments and golden screws begin to fall on the floor.<br><br>BILL<br><br>Jim! Old Nut-cracker thinks nothing of it. It's just like cheese to old Nut-cracker.<br><br>JIM<br><br>They won't let you do it, Bill.<br><br>BILL<br><br>They don't know what I've got. I'm getting through it like cheese, Jim.<br><br>JIM<br><br>Suppose it's a mile thick. Suppose it's a million miles thick. Suppose it's a hundred million miles thick.<br><br>BILL<br><br>Can't be, Jim. These doors are meant to open outward. They couldn't do that if they were more than four inches at the most, not for an Archbishop. They'd stick.<br><br>JIM<br><br>You remember that great safe we broke open once, what had coal in it.<br><br>BILL<br><br>This isn't a safe, Jim, this is Heaven. COMMENTS: Visual Text CANDIDATE FOR ADAPTATION?: --- not set --- Not reviewed Promising Unlikely SOURCE MATERIAL: Fable Novella Play Plot summary Short Story -- Parent -- GENRE: Comedy Comic Horror Detective Drama Fable Fairy Tale Fantasy Folklore Folktale Ghost Story Melodrama Mystery Myth Operetta Other Romance Suspense Young Audiences -- Parent -- SETTING: Africa America England Europe Fantasy International New Zealand Pastoral Rural Rustic Science Fiction -- Parent -- LENGTH FOR ADAPTATION: 10 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 45 Minutes 60 Minutes 90 Minutes Two Hours -- Parent -- URL FOR PDF DOCUMENT: TheGlitteringGate.pdf
