00:00The inhabitants of the archipelago had quite a range of ideas about who ultimately would
00:06come to save them.
00:07But even their gloomiest pessimists could never have imagined they'd be pinning all
00:12their hopes on a ridiculous old man.
00:18Undoubtedly he was a spry old fellow for someone so clearly beyond his expiration date.
00:25But still, what could anyone honestly expect from a walking fossil?
00:31Maybe he'd pester everyone with endless questions, or trace his finger across his maps which are
00:38no less ancient than he.
00:40But you'd have to be downright bats to think he'd actually defeat anyone with that funny
00:46little cane.
01:04Of course, one can blindly hope that certain creatures might rather choose to withdraw,
01:10if only out of immense respect for the age-old wisdom of the venerable reanimated museum exhibit.
01:19But most won't be surrendering without a fight.
01:30On the other hand, isn't that how every ancient geezer recounts the story of his life?
01:36Dramatic, fantastic, as if every trivial excursion were transformed into a series of trials, and
01:44every new day brought inevitable pain?
01:48And were this life eternal, there would be no end to the suffering.
01:55It's true what they say.
01:58Some people get so old, they simply forget to die.
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