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"It’s ain his ive it the power to kill him"

The stewardess was flummoxed for only a ht," she said Gus nodded and rejoined the cigarette to its pack

We finally taxied out to the runway and the pilot said, Flight attendants, prepare for departure, and then two trean to accelerate "This is what it feels like to drive in a car with you," I said, and he sht and I said, "Okay?"

We were picking up speed and suddenly Gus’s hand grabbed the armrest, his eyes wide, and I put , just stared at ?"

"I’ll tell you in a minute," he said The nose of the plane rose up and ere aloft Gus stared out the atching the planet shrink beneath us, and then I felt his hand relax beneath lanced at ," he announced

"You’ve never been on a plane before?"

He shook his head "LOOK!" he half shouted, pointing at the

"Yeah," I said "Yeah, I see it It looks like we’re in an airplane"

"NOTHING HAS EVER LOOKED LIKE THAT EVER IN ALL OF HUMAN HISTORY," he said His enthusias over to kiss hiht here," Mo next to you Your mother Who held your hand as you took your first infantile steps"

"It’s friendly," I re to kiss her on the cheek

"Didn’t feel too friendly," Gus h for ed froustus, I literally could not resist

It was a quick flight to Detroit, where the little electric car ate for Amsterdam That plane had TVs in the back of each seat, and once ere above the clouds, Augustus and I ti the same romantic comedy at the sah ere perfectly synchronized in our pressing of the play button, his movie started a couple seconds before h just as I started to hear whatever the joke was

Mo plan that ould sleep for the last several hours of the flight, so e landed at eight AM, we’d hit the city ready to suck the marrow out of life or whatever So after thepills Moustus and I stayed up to look out thefor a while It was a clear day, and although we couldn’t see the sun setting, we could see the sky’s response

"God, that is beautiful," I saideyes,’" he said, a line fro," I said

"It’s rising somewhere," he answered, and then after a moment said, "Observation: It would be awesome to fly in a superfast airplane that could chase the sunrise around the world for a while"

"Also I’d live longer" He looked at me askew "You know, because of relativity or whatever" He still looked confused "We age sloe ht now tiround"

"College chicks," he said "They’re so smart"

I rolled my eyes He hit his (real) knee with my knee and I hit his knee back with mine "Are you sleepy?" I asked him

"Not at all," he answered

"Yeah," I said "Me neither" Sleeping meds and narcotics didn’t do for me what they did for normal people

"Want to watch another ot a Port you haven’t seen"

In the end atched 300, a wararustus’s ain, and after a few !" or "Fatality!" every time someone was killed in some badass way, I leaned over the armrest and put my head on his shoulder so I could see his screen and we could actually watch the ether

300 featured a sizable collection of shirtless and well-oiled strapping young lads, so it was not particularly difficult on the eyes, but it wasto no real effect The bodies of the Persians and the Spartans piled up, and I couldn’t quite figure out why the Persians were so evil or the Spartans so awesome "Contemporaneity," to quote AIA, "specializes in the kind of battles wherein no one loses anything of any value, except arguably their lives" And so it ith these titans clashing

Toward the end of the movie, almost everyone is dead, and there is this insanethe bodies of the dead up to form a wall of corpses The dead beco between the Persians and the road to Sparta I found the gore a bit gratuitous, so I looked away for a second, asking Augustus, "How many dead people do you think there are?"

He dis awesome"

When the Persians attacked, they had to climb up the wall of death, and the Spartans were able to occupy the high ground atop the corpse mountain, and as the bodies piled up, the wall of her and therefore harder to cli swords/shot arrows, and the rivers of blood poured down Mount Death, etc

I took et a break froustus watch the rin I watched reith the bodies of Persians and Spartans When the Persians finally overran the Spartans, I looked over at Augustus again Even though the good guys had just lost, Augustus seeain, but kept my eyes closed until the battle was finished

As the credits rolled, he took off his headphones and said, "Sorry, I ash in the nobility of sacrifice What were you saying?"