:36:08
So, whens Stuart getting back?
:36:10
Couple days, maybe a week.
:36:12
He promised me that he would
return late this evening.
:36:14
Well, maybe he will, Leopold.
:36:15
Hes so big on keeping
his promises.
:36:26
May I have the next course?
:36:29
There is no next course.
:36:32
Ha.
:36:33
Where I come from
:36:36
the meal is the result
of reflection and study.
:36:39
Menus are prepared in advance
:36:41
timed to perfection.
:36:43
It is said,
without the culinary arts
:36:45
the crudeness of reality
would be unbearable.
:36:48
We had a saying
in the McKay house:
:36:50
"You shake and shake
the ketchup bottle.
:36:52
None will come,
and then a lotll."
:36:57
What is that?
:36:59
I beg your pardon?
:37:00
Why are you standing?
:37:01
Im accustomed to stand
:37:02
when a lady leaves the table.
:37:12
Tell me, Charles
:37:14
when Stuart and your
sister were engaged
:37:16
did you happen to read
:37:17
his papers on
the temporal universe?
:37:18
I spent the morning perusing
them, and must confess...
:37:21
Stuart and I were never engaged.
:37:23
Not even close.
:37:24
But I did read...
:37:25
Thank you.
:37:26
But I did read his papers
:37:27
however, to show support.
:37:29
Is Stuart still trying
:37:30
to make a time machine?
:37:31
Thats the beauty of it--
he discovered
:37:33
no machine was necessary.
:37:34
All one had to do was
to develop
:37:36
formula to forecast portals--
:37:37
natural windows
in the fabric of time.
:37:40
Apparently, Stuart located one
:37:42
utilizing modern...
:37:43
Ah!
:37:46
Utilizing modern theories
of weather prediction.
:37:50
Whats a portal?
:37:51
An opening which exists
for but a moment.
:37:53
This explains why
:37:54
one must jump through it
from a height--
:37:56
in order to achieve
the required velocity.
:37:57
The speed of gravity,
to be exact.
:37:59
Its quite brilliant.