Voyager Page #5

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everybody wears black and drinks espresso?

You should give it a try.

Maybe I will.

My mother says everyone can

be moved by a work of art

except the intellectual philistine.

- Mr. Faber is an engineer.

He is not interested in creativity.

Don't speak for myself,

thank you very much.

To experience... eternity

takes a little bit more

than rational science.

Oh sh*t! Now we're gonna

talk about eternity?

I mean, excuse me, I'm sorry.

I... I'm a technologist.

You know, it's a very

simple point of view.

We're trained to see things

as they are without dreaming.

I don't know what the souls of the

damned look like. Do you reverened?

I mean how can I experience something

that isn't there? We're on a ship here.

You know, were all at sea

with a bunch of strangers.

It's very simple. That's all

there is to it. Excuse me.

Oh, and what, another thing.

It's not art or religion that's keeping us

all from drowning here. It's technology.

American technology.

Good night.

Good night, Walter.

- Cheers!

Ready?

My partner didn't show up. Would you

like to play ping-pong with me?

Ping-pong?

Well, I'm a little rusty.

No excuses, Walter.

The shuffleboard can wait.

And take your beatings like a man.

Well, I suppose ping-pong's like everything

else, just a question of confidence.

Are you always so pompous?

Pompous? Is that being pompous?

It was the way you said it.

"Question of confidence. "

Oh, you're... very good.

- Do you wanna play?

I'm game.

Ready?

Yeah, I shouldn't have had

that chocolate mousse, you know?

I mean it was great but I'm on a diet.

- Hey Louie!

Hey, look. An avid game

of ping-pong here.

All right.

Your serve, right?

Hi.

- Hi.

Hey, Walter. You wanna

drink now or later?

Hey Louie. Citrus fruit.

I don't even know your name.

Walter Faber.

- I'm Elizabeth.

Elizabeth?

That doesn't seem to fit you.

We'll have to think up

something better for you.

I don't think you're having a very

good time on this ship, Mr. Faber.

No, five days without a car.

- I love it! I could sail around the world.

Yeah, well you'd have to go without me.

That would be sad. No

one to beat at ping-pong.

I had forgotten that

anyone could be so young.

Her endless curiosity got me

talking about navigation, radar,

the curvature of the earth and so on.

Thank you.

It's always a pleasure to

watch machinery in operation.

We walked down to the

big propeller shafts.

What impressed her most were all the

pipes, never mind what they were for.

I explained the main control panel,

what a kilowatt is, hydraulics...

What an ampere is, problems

of torsion, index and friction.

Teague of the steel through

vibration and so on.

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