FATHER IWANICKI
Your friend does sound troubled, my son.
ELWOOD
The worst of it was his strange, terrible dreams.
FATHER IWANICKI
An intelligent man studying both mathematics and occult folklore... no doubt it triggered his imagination.
ELWOOD
It wasn't his imagination, Father. I think he made some kind of deal with the Devil. He'd gained abstract mathematical knowledge beyond human comprehension! We were all astounded by it, especially our teacher, Professor Upham.
PROFESSOR UPHAM
So many questions
Science is a vast frontier
Of theory scrutinized
Deep exploration
Of concepts we hold dear
We equate and we describe
UPHAM + ELWOOD + STUDENTS
Our calculations never end
GILMAN
I've insight you can't comprehend
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
I will go to a cosmos more immense
There's a bridge to the stars
PROFESSOR UPHAM
Son, your notion's quite bizarre
ELWOOD
Walter, you're not making any sense
GILMAN
Just hold on!
Mankind's perceptions are constricted by his fears
Blindness soothes your mind
PROFESSOR UPHAM
Bold speculation, but your theory thus implies
Flesh and blood of man survives
Such entry to another realm
ELWOOD
Bound creatures, we'd be overwhelmed
UPHAM + ELWOOD
On your bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
UPHAM
I'm impressed, but it's just a metaphor
GILMAN
There's a bridge to the stars
And places very far
It's actual, and I can show you more
ELWOOD
Walter strode up to the black board and effortlessly solved numerous Riemannian equations, which seemed to demonstrate the possibility of man literally stepping from one dimension to others of infinite remoteness. Professor Upham was astonished. I was baffled at first, but soon I could see...
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
We could walk where no man has walked before
There's a bridge to the stars
ELWOOD + GILMAN
And places very far
Expand your mind, the world's ours to explore
MISKATONIC STUDENT CHOIR
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
We could walk where no man has walked before
There's a bridge to the stars
UPHAM
Mister Gilman that's quite intriguing
MISKATONIC STUDENT CHOIR
To explore
Ahhhh
There's a bridge to the stars!
ELWOOD
Other students whispered about Walter in the hallways. Even the faculty were concerned for him. The learning ... he was coming unhinged.
FATHER IWANICKI
Perhaps Gilman ought not to have studied so hard.
ELWOOD
It wasn't only that, Father. Walter lived in the very room where Keziah herself performed black magic.
FATHER IWANICKI
My son, witchcraft and science are two sides of the same coin. Man has always hungered for the unknowable, the divine.
ELWOOD
But Father, this isn't divine at all. This knowledge was, I don't know... profane? Unholy?
FATHER IWANICKI
Your friend Walter's soul was in peril, my son. Yours too, perhaps. The Lord of Darkness is always present and can take many forms.
ELWOOD
Yes, Father. Walter heard strange, unearthly voices in the house. He said there was a creature, a horrible thing bound to the Witch.
FATHER IWANICKI
It is said witches had familiars, evil spirits in the form of animals.
ELWOOD
Yes! That's it exactly! He saw it, in his dreams.
FATHER IWANICKI
Dreams can be a battlefield, where the holy and unholy wage war for the soul.
ELWOOD
Walter's dreams were now becoming terrifying nightmares
Your friend does sound troubled, my son.
ELWOOD
The worst of it was his strange, terrible dreams.
FATHER IWANICKI
An intelligent man studying both mathematics and occult folklore... no doubt it triggered his imagination.
ELWOOD
It wasn't his imagination, Father. I think he made some kind of deal with the Devil. He'd gained abstract mathematical knowledge beyond human comprehension! We were all astounded by it, especially our teacher, Professor Upham.
PROFESSOR UPHAM
So many questions
Science is a vast frontier
Of theory scrutinized
Deep exploration
Of concepts we hold dear
We equate and we describe
UPHAM + ELWOOD + STUDENTS
Our calculations never end
GILMAN
I've insight you can't comprehend
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
I will go to a cosmos more immense
There's a bridge to the stars
PROFESSOR UPHAM
Son, your notion's quite bizarre
ELWOOD
Walter, you're not making any sense
GILMAN
Just hold on!
Mankind's perceptions are constricted by his fears
Blindness soothes your mind
PROFESSOR UPHAM
Bold speculation, but your theory thus implies
Flesh and blood of man survives
Such entry to another realm
ELWOOD
Bound creatures, we'd be overwhelmed
UPHAM + ELWOOD
On your bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
UPHAM
I'm impressed, but it's just a metaphor
GILMAN
There's a bridge to the stars
And places very far
It's actual, and I can show you more
ELWOOD
Walter strode up to the black board and effortlessly solved numerous Riemannian equations, which seemed to demonstrate the possibility of man literally stepping from one dimension to others of infinite remoteness. Professor Upham was astonished. I was baffled at first, but soon I could see...
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
We could walk where no man has walked before
There's a bridge to the stars
ELWOOD + GILMAN
And places very far
Expand your mind, the world's ours to explore
MISKATONIC STUDENT CHOIR
There's a bridge to the stars
Dimensions near and far
We could walk where no man has walked before
There's a bridge to the stars
UPHAM
Mister Gilman that's quite intriguing
MISKATONIC STUDENT CHOIR
To explore
Ahhhh
There's a bridge to the stars!
ELWOOD
Other students whispered about Walter in the hallways. Even the faculty were concerned for him. The learning ... he was coming unhinged.
FATHER IWANICKI
Perhaps Gilman ought not to have studied so hard.
ELWOOD
It wasn't only that, Father. Walter lived in the very room where Keziah herself performed black magic.
FATHER IWANICKI
My son, witchcraft and science are two sides of the same coin. Man has always hungered for the unknowable, the divine.
ELWOOD
But Father, this isn't divine at all. This knowledge was, I don't know... profane? Unholy?
FATHER IWANICKI
Your friend Walter's soul was in peril, my son. Yours too, perhaps. The Lord of Darkness is always present and can take many forms.
ELWOOD
Yes, Father. Walter heard strange, unearthly voices in the house. He said there was a creature, a horrible thing bound to the Witch.
FATHER IWANICKI
It is said witches had familiars, evil spirits in the form of animals.
ELWOOD
Yes! That's it exactly! He saw it, in his dreams.
FATHER IWANICKI
Dreams can be a battlefield, where the holy and unholy wage war for the soul.
ELWOOD
Walter's dreams were now becoming terrifying nightmares