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I hope not. I've only been dead 20 minutes.
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Yes and no.
Down there they think it's six months.
:40:10
Time is funny stuff.
:40:12
A lot funnier than Einstein ever figured out.
:40:16
How did he take it?
:40:18
That'll do it.
:40:22
Where was I?
:40:24
"Time is funny stuff."
:40:26
space has its points, too.
so in the five months since you crashed...
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You said it was six months.
:40:31
That was then. I'm explaining this
to you in the wrong order.
:40:35
Hey, look!
:40:40
I did my first solo in one of those!
:40:42
That's right.
:40:44
I did that!
:40:46
Boy, was I nervous!
But you want to know a funny thing?
:40:51
Once I got up there, I felt like a veteran.
:40:54
I couldn't do anything wrong.
:40:57
I flew that plane like Fats Waller
flies his piano.
:41:01
I circled the field, then I found
a perfect sideslip in the wind...
:41:05
...and I came in just like a leaf.
:41:07
That's right.
:41:10
You think you did that by yourself?
:41:13
There was nobody else up there with me.
:41:15
There was, Pete.
:41:17
There was someone like you.
Behind him was someone else.
:41:21
Maybe someone who learned
what he learned on a motorized box kite.
:41:26
And you knew that,
though you had a different word for it.
:41:31
I did? What word?
:41:34
It's what fliers and piano players...
:41:37
...and everyone else count on.
They reach for it. They pray for it.
:41:41
And often, just when they need it most,
they get it.
:41:45
It's breathed into them.
:41:48
It's what the word means. Spiritus.
:41:51
The divine breath. Inspiration.
:41:55
Inspiration.
:41:59
And now it's your turn to give it back.