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Then I was ready.

	Not the sort to take too long a break, Jacob feels more at home with himself now that the helmet is back on, and that unthinking lunch time is gone. If he would just take a moment, sit there a day, two days, an enforced vacation, perhaps he might get a different biochemical perspective on the mandates of his consciousness, and just take off that suit (this is his last chance), and head back to work, or the hospital, or church, or school, or just into the city, which has all these and lots of nice stores to look into also.

53:14

Garden of Eden Cave:

Jacob walks without stop through the desert's dark cone, to arrive at a place higher than the flat floor. This is the entrance to the Garden of Eden Cave, portico to the land of the Dead.

Jacob travels through harsh rock, actually through the elevator, and arrives at the rotating door entrance to this world. After a short snack, he walks past the pay phones and into the dark.