The next day at work, Henry goes back down to the vault to read a newspaper. This contradiction is made apparent in the hopeless struggle of Henry Bemis. If leisure is the fertile soil in which high culture must flourish, it has unfortunately struggled to find a home in the modern labor market. I remember bringing a copy of Great Expectations to read at one of my first jobs working as a cashier. The tension between employment and reading literature is a struggle faced by every modern intellectually curious person. She marks up a book of poetry so Henry cannot read a single word. Later, he comes home to his shrew of a wife who also prohibits him from reading –even newspapers are forbidden.
He wears large, thick spectacles and is employed at a bank which forbids him from reading David Copperfield even while isolated below ground in the vault during his lunch break. Henry Bemis is a clumsy Geek, obsessed with reading books, but tragically he is prevented from pursuing his one hobby. He’ll have a world all to himself… without anyone.“ Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. Bradbury later submitted several scripts for The Twilight Zone however the only episode he is credited with writing is “I Sing the Body Electric” in Season 3.
The story was initially released and published in If Magazine in 1953, the same year that Ray Bradbury published Fahrenheit 451. The first episode not to be a wholly created from the mind of Rod Serling, “Time Enough At Last” is based on a short story of the same name by American writer Lynn Venable.
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