The Man from Earth Page #3

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Something everybody else

in history had done wrong.

What, like eat the food,

Drink the water, and breathe the air?

Prior to modern times,

Those were pristine.

We've extended our lifespan

in a world that's, uh...

not fit to live in.

You know, it could happen.

The pancreas turns over

cells every 24 hours,

The stomach lining in three days,

The entire body in seven years,

But the process falters.

Waste accumulates, eventually

proves fatal to function.

Now if a quirk in his immune system

Led to perfect detox,

Perfect renewal, then yeah.

He could duck decay.

Mm, that's a secret

we'd all love to have.

Would you really want to do that?

Live 14,000 years?

Well, if I could stay

healthy and I didn't age,

I mean, why not?

Yeah. What a chance to learn.

Is anyone hungry?

You know, the more I think

about it, yeah, it's possible.

Anything is possible, right?

After all, one century's magic,

another century's science.

They thought Columbus

was a nut job, right?

Pasteur, Copernicus?

Aristarchus long before that.

Right.

I had a chance to sail with columbus,

Only I'm not the adventurous type.

I was pretty sure the earth was round,

But at that point, I still thought

He might fall off an edge someplace...

look around, John.

We just did.

I suppose there's a

joke in there somewhere,

But I don't get it.

There's nothing to get.

What are we talking about?

We were just talking about a caveman

Who survives until the present time.

As you said, what a chance to learn,

Once I learned to learn.

Did you start the whiskey

before we got here?

Pretend it's science fiction.

Figure it out.

Okay, a--( Laughs )--

Very old Cro-magnon

Living until the present.

( Grunts loudly )

Oh!

( Laughing )

What?

John just confided that

he's 14,000 years old.

Oh, John, you don't look a day over 900.

Okay, okay.

All right, spock, I'll

play your little game.

What do you want? What's the punch line?

Every ten years or so, when people start

To notice I don't age, I move on.

That's very good,

that's very quick, John.

I wanna read that

story when you're done.

You want more?

By all means. This is great.

All right, now...

( laughs )

So you think that you are a...

a, uh, Cro-magnon.

Well, I didn't learn it in school.

That's my best guess,

Based on archaeological data,

maps, anthropological research.

Since mesopotamia,

I've got the last...

You're ahead of most

people, so please, go on.

Well, you know the background stuff,

So I'll make it brief.

In what I call my first lifetime,

I aged to about 35...

what you see.

I ended up leading my group.

They saw me as magical.

I didn't even have to fight for it.

Then fear came, and they chased me away.

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