[ How much longer would he have to live before people stopped believing he was even real? Another fifty years? Another hundred? Long enough for everyone he's met to die, and for those stories to pass into fiction.
That sounds so lonely he can't bear it. ]
That was one of the world powers, right? [ They're making good time, he notes. There's still miles and miles to go, but even as tired -- and hungry -- as he is, he can still run for hours yet. It won't be more than an hour, he figures, before they'll be able to see December. ] I mostly skipped those chapters. [ Why read about politics on a world you'll never see when you can read about animals? ] What kind of myths did they have? Anything good?
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[ How much longer would he have to live before people stopped believing he was even real? Another fifty years? Another hundred? Long enough for everyone he's met to die, and for those stories to pass into fiction.
That sounds so lonely he can't bear it. ]
That was one of the world powers, right? [ They're making good time, he notes. There's still miles and miles to go, but even as tired -- and hungry -- as he is, he can still run for hours yet. It won't be more than an hour, he figures, before they'll be able to see December. ] I mostly skipped those chapters. [ Why read about politics on a world you'll never see when you can read about animals? ] What kind of myths did they have? Anything good?