Thecould not possibly be so malevolent, now that he had only a few hundred meters to go. He was whistling in the , of course. How many aircraft had crashed at the very edge of the runway, after safely crossing an ocean? How many times had machines or muscles failed when there were only millimeters to go? Every possible piece of , bad as well as good, happened to somebody, somewhere. He had no right to expect any special treatment.

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