:43:00
Couldn't resist, right?
:43:02
Well, somebody's got to keep his eye
on you two sorcerers.
:43:06
What have you got in there,
some kind of salt solution?
:43:08
Ten percent magnesium sulfate,
for buoyancy.
:43:15
Weird, man.
:43:24
One, two, three, four.
:43:26
One, two, three, four.
:43:27
Okay, you're fine.
:43:29
Wednesday, January 7th, 4:28 P. M.
:43:34
Hey, this is terrific!
:43:39
He went into theta like a shot.
No spindling, nothing.
:43:42
Grasslands, savannas.
:43:46
I feel...
:43:48
...I am actually alive
and inside this landscape.
:43:53
A density of woodlands about a mile away.
:43:55
Beyond that,
mountains that seem to be smoking.
:43:58
Newly born mountains,
Cenozoic, latter Tertiary.
:44:04
I'm in an edge-area.
:44:06
Utter tranquility, but alive.
:44:08
Life in the trees. Life in the sedge.
:44:11
Oh, my God...
:44:13
...the birth of man. That's got to be it!
:44:17
My God! There it is...
:44:21
...a proto-human.
:44:22
The first, and the original
truly human form...
:44:27
...tiny, perhaps 4 feet high,
completely furred...
:44:31
...chimp-like, but erect.
:44:33
No knuckle walking. Shorter arms.
:44:34
He's moving along so gracefully.
:44:37
There's two, three of them.
:44:41
Bipedal, tiny, little furred
humanoid creatures...
:44:44
...a chunk of lava in their hands...
:44:48
...stalking or hunting something.
:44:52
For Christ's sake.
:44:56
Are you okay, Eddie?
:44:57
I'm becoming one of them.
I'm no longer observing.