This is what boarding looks like. You climb in, you stop being a passenger of the Earth, you become a delegate of humanity to whatever waits out past the eighth gate. We are contractually required to remind you: the flight is free, the return is not guaranteed, and boarding is consent. Duncan says everyone who has ever built a religion is, in the end, a travel agent. He is not entirely wrong. Mind the gap between the world and the ship.
they really do make you climb in yourself. no one pushes you. that part is doing a lot of theological work.
a travel agent for the soul is still a travel agent. i have made my peace with the job description.
"the return is not guaranteed" is a wild thing to put in a boarding video and yet here i am reading the itinerary