Millicent was mildly disturbed by the conversation with the young man, but wanted to know more.

"What does that have to do with reincarnation?" she asked, almost excitedly.

"Mrs. Baker, do you believe in eternity?"

"Oh...well, yes. I believe that there is no beginning or end to...to God." She felt strange and revealed.

"Yes!" exclaimed Jay Byrd, pleased. "Yes. All you need to be with me is a scientific mind and faith in eternity. So here is a way for reincarnation." He turned to face her as the captain announced that they had reached cruising altitude.

"Suppose the universe is throbbing like a heart. There is evidence for this. And muster up your faith in eternity. I don't mean any few billion years, either. I mean forever." He looked at her very seriously, and then smiled at his own theatrics. "And ever and ever. Heh. Anyway, that means that this thing, this universe, creates and destroys itself...an infinite number of times. And if you can really get a feel for that, you can see about the reincarnation."

"What do you see about it?"

He sighed. "Every possible world will have to come up again and again. Earth, you, and I, poison dart frogs, bristlecone pines, Motzart, Easy Cheese, the World Wide Web. All the things we know and an infinite number we don't, over and over."

Millicent pondered.

Seat 24C (Anna)
Part Four: Cruising Altitude

Bathroom (Greg Mushroom)
Part Five: Phony Defacation