8.Your Most Valuable Possesson
6：49am, Friday, November 20th
'Good morning, Mr. Ben. It's about 6：30,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Just laying here in the bed, half awake,
half asleep, thinking about you.
I was, uh, wondering if you were looking
after your most valuable possession--your mind.
I was thinking about John Glenn, his space journey and all.
They said that when you're in space you lose muscle mass...
and the body mass...and I wondered if there was any...end to it.
Or whether if you didn't exercise in space,
how long it would be for you were just...a head,
or a mind, and have no body or arms--
you would have them but you couldn't
use them. I was wondering if, uh,
if your body mass would drop to a certain level,
and then it would stop right there and
keep whatever you needed to use your mind,
because it would still be working. 30 seconds remaining...
anyway, I was just pondering that.
What do you think about that？ I hope
everything is going all right,
I'm going to wake up here in a little while--
I forget what I was thinking about.'
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