The following is an email from Alec. I post it without comment save to say that most of the people on the Titanic did not drown; they succumbed to hypothermia.
Tuesday 11:27 PM February 19, 2008
I would like to fly.
This phrase popped in my head just now, and I decided to write it down. I went swimming in the lake outside my dorm the other night. I asked Tim to borrow his soccer ball to go practice my penalty kicks, and on the way to the field the ball got away from me and fell into the lake. I had some premonition that it would, seeing as how every time I pass the lake I imagine the day I would have to go in it. So it didn’t take twenty seconds for me to take off all my shirts and jump into the freezing water to retrieve the ball. It was after that I remembered why the lake is there. The power plant (a trash incinerator) for JMU is on the top of the hill that ends in this lake. It isn’t a stretch of the imagination to say that some…unwanted things…end up in the lake. When I got out of the water I stayed squatting for a few minutes to drip dry and stay out of the harsh February wind (wind chill on Sunday was in the 20s). I put on my dry shirts, and with my soaking gym shorts and running shoes I went to the soccer field and tried my best to hit the upper 90. I suppose my inspiration of flying could come from this jaunt in a possibly radioactive lake, and I might be feeling the hints of a super power. I would not object to flying, because as I have already said:
I would like to fly.
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