I really love you....but I'll be on my way......
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry to interrupt you, because I think that this is a rather busy time for you, but your girlfriend is trying to contact you. Shall I put her through?"
Karl: "Oh jeeze.....can't you put her off for me??!!"
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry but I've tried...really....but..."
"KARL, are you hooked up!? We're about ready to drop and that is DROP my man!! , Are you ready?!!??"
Karl: "Yessir...ahhh nossir...... I can't get the belt feed hooked up, there is a jam in the gun."
"WELL GET THE DAMNED THING FIXED!!!"
Karl: "Yessir..."
Karl: "You can't get her to let things be for a while Kandi ?"
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry, but it does not seem so. She is quite insistent. She is crying, I have used certain remote sensors to check and she, indeed, seems to be crying. She seems to be very worried about you and that you are in the Navy and that you have not answered."
Karl: "Oh jeeze.....Bill can you get over here and help me a minute? Ok Kandi, tell her to give me five and then get back with me and we'll talk."
It would seem that in a day and age as that when the modern interspace/atmospheric ship is constructed that all of the access areas and passageways would be designed in a generous way so as to facilitate movement but, it seems that even now....some things "get cut to do other things"....read "do in a less than optimal way" for "cut". [author's emphasis]
From the Annals of the Space Navy Review: ZUMMALT, vol 7258, issue 243.
"Jeeze Karl, what is it? I've got problems ah my own, this whole "not a drill" thing is way too much for me to get actually activated in the coms. Whadda ya need guy?"
Karl: "Can you..."
Karl is motioning to Bill, pointing at the brass feed tube which is supposed to be held by a lanyard so as to be able to swivel when under rotation...
"PREPARE FOR DROP! THIS IS HOT, REPEAT THIS IS HOT!"
"Not a good thi.....aaarrragh, we're SUPPOSED to be in drop harnesssssssssss ya know! Here.....take this..."
Bill is working furiously to get a lanyard passed over to Karl to hold the brass feed for the belt but the ship was accelerating into an ever greater curve nearing asymptote and the lanyard was dangling mere centimeters from Bill's hand....
You know I'm not one to break promises,
I don't want to hurt you but I need to breathe.
At the end of it all, you're still my best friend,
But there's something inside that I need to release.
I don't want to hurt you but I need to breathe.
At the end of it all, you're still my best friend,
But there's something inside that I need to release.
DROP IS ACCELERATING......check gear as you can!! CHECK GEAR!!!
Karl: "THANKS THANKS ...oh sorrry too much presssssssure, thannnnnnks..... "
Karl snaps the feed into the gun and leans back into his acceleration harness....
Kandi 4350: "I trust that I'm not intruding, I can register from your vitals that.."
Karl: "Go ahead! Patch her through! (wheezing) Thanks Bill, I think that does it..(wheezing)..this is just gawdawful, (wheezing) what the hell is going on? This is supposed to be a routine training...."
"Karl? Are you there? What's going on?"
Karl: "Oh hi sweetie, not much really, we are just on an exercise...(wheeze)"
"DON'T EVEN GIVE ME THAT!! I can hear you!! WHAT's WRONG!!! You're out of breath!!! WHY!!! You are never out of breath I've ... I' ve SEEN the feeds on the vids but then they cut them off!! Something about some kind of animals toward center city....are you involved in that?...lots of people killed apparently...you know how I feel about you...."
NEARING ASYMPTOTE!! NEARING ASYMPTOTE!!!
Which way is right, which way is wrong,
How do I say that I need to move on?
You know we're headed separate ways.
How do I say that I need to move on?
You know we're headed separate ways.
"Karl, you know I love you......but you being in the Navy when you don't need to be is such a strain...I just can't handle it....I..... worry about you....I mean you don't need to do...."
Bill: "Karl!!!ssssss....nnnnngggg are you ooooooooookaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy........"
ASYMPTOTE AT MAXIMUM!! MAXSIMM....uuuuu.......mmmmm
"ooooooooooo hhhhhhhh......soooooorrrrryyyyyyyyyyy....."
NEAR ASYMPTOTE REACHED....IMMELMAN...IMMELMANNNNNNnnnnnnn........ ...!!!!
"Karl.....are you there? Karl.....?? Karl?
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry, but Karl is somewhat indisposed right now.."
"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN BITCH!! GET KARL BACK NOW!!!"
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry madam, but Karl is out of touch right now. I merely relay between you and he, and...."
"GET HIM BACK ON NOWWWW !!! NOW !!!!
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry madam but..."
Karl: "It's......oookaay....just..(wheeze) need a breather......(wheezing) .need a breather...Bill you ok??
Bill: "Nothing a rum 'n coke wouldn't fix! (wheezing) LOL LOL!"
Karl: "it's okay...patch me through..."
Karl: "hey sweetie..sorry about the situation but things are kinda messed up right now, we were supposed to be on a training..."
"TRAINING.....give me a break!!! Karl,.... I really do care about you!! I mean, maybe I lLOVE YOU!!! but..this kinda crap just....well you don't even need to be doing this!! WHAT'S going on...we had a date for th...."
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
There's nothing I can really say.
I can't lie no more, I can't hide no more,
Got to be true to myself.
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
So I'll be on my way.
There's nothing I can really say.
I can't lie no more, I can't hide no more,
Got to be true to myself.
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
So I'll be on my way.
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry Karl.......but she seems to have broken the connection...."
Karl: "That's o.k. Kandi..... she deserves more than I can give her..."
Kandi 4350: "I'm sorry Karl....really, I'm sorry."
Kandi 4350's hand was soft on the back of his neck...............
.................................................. .. as the ship finished the Immelman...
..................he tightened the acceleration harness and
................................................. pulled the hammer on the Green Dragon.
And.....Below......
Below...... below the men of Easy Street..... below the men of the ship......
The Chinee Lady on the blimp winked....
The bum boats plied their trade.....
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And I looked up....to see a speck of white-hot light flashing from the lowering clouds....
and....
Somehow I knew.....that men were rushing toward the sounds of chaos....and....
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the ship hurtled downward.....
the lights of the of Mega City West beckoned....
beckoned...............
..................chaos.................beckoned.. .....to the men in the Easy Street...
And it feels like I am just too close to love you,
There's nothing I can really say.
.........
So I'll be on my way.
There's nothing I can really say.
.........
So I'll be on my way.
The above quotes are from the song entitled: "Too Close" by Alex Clare and are used under the Fair Use clause of U.S. copyright law.