Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
If this is the first blog-post by me you're reading then you are galactically uninformed.
This Is What I Think.
Monday, May 25, 2026
Today is 05/25/2026
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excerpts
http://hvom.blogspot.com/2022/03/today-is-tuesday-03222022-post-2.html
Posted by me, Kerry Burgess at 6:22 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Today is Tuesday, 03/22/2022, Post #2
https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/569042/s01-e06-i-want-to-know-what-you-taste-like?autoplay=true
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The Passage
S01:E06 - I Want to Know What You Taste Like (2019)
Tensions are high with a viral on the loose
Dr. Jonas Lear: What was it like when you were sick?
Elizabeth Lear: You mean when I lost my mind?
Dr. Jonas Lear: Yeah.
Elizabeth Lear: Hmm. Well, it's like you you lost everything. You know, first your keys, then your wallet, your phone, and then everyone you care about. You. It was like there was this big hole where my life used to be.
Elizabeth Lear: It was just filled with fear and panic. Oh, and then Tim came to me.
Dr. Jonas Lear: What did he say?
Elizabeth Lear: You're not surprised.
Dr. Jonas Lear: No.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9213830
IMDb
The Passage
I Want to Know What You Taste Like
Episode aired Feb 18, 2019
S1 E6
Writers
Justin Cronin (based on the novels by)
The Passage (2019) s01e06
I Want to Know What You Taste Like
(from internet transcript)
Dr. Jonas Lear: Those alarms you heard were set off because one of the virals escaped. Are you gonna say anything?
Elizabeth Lear: I'm trying to imagine writing a character who finds out she's been rescued from Alzheimer's by a serum that will turn her into an immortal blood-drinking thing in 48 hours.
The Passage (2019) s01e06
I Want to Know What You Taste Like
(from internet transcript)
Elizabeth Lear: And what she would say to her husband. 'Cause what you're s-saying is is insane. Jonas, please. Tell me you're you're messing with me.
Dr. Jonas Lear: I couldn't let you go.
Elizabeth Lear: Well, apparently, you're gonna have to pretty soon.
[excerpts ends]
From 3/22/2022 ( ) To 5/25/2026 ( ) is 1525 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 1/5/1970 ( premiere USA TV series "All My Children" ) is 1525 days
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From 6/1/2002 ( premiere US TV series episode "America's Most Wanted"::"Anthony Carter" ) To 6/8/2010 ( ) is 2929 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/9/1973 ( the Watergate burglars sentenced to federal prison ) is 2929 days
https://www.amazon.com/Passage-Novel-Book-One-Trilogy-ebook/dp/B003F3PM7A
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You purchased this item on October 23, 2018.
The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy) Kindle Edition
by Justin Cronin (Author)
Publication Date: June 8, 2010
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy) [2012]
Justin Cronin
Page 483 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
The voice in his head was silent. A profound stillness encased him like the anticipatory stillness before a storm. They would be coming from the west. He waited.
Then:
The first one appeared, then another and another, eleven points of glowing phosphorescence spaced at equal intervals on the horizon. The gaps between them narrowed as they neared, like the lights of a giant aircraft approaching.
Come to me, Guilder thought. Come to me.
Details began to emerge. Not so much to emerge as to enlarge. One was smaller than the rest - that would be Carter, of course, he thought; the unknowable, anomalous Anthony Carter - but the others took his breath away. In their powerful forms and graceful movements and absolute mastery of themselves they seemed to shrink the space around them, to bend dimensions, to rewrite the course of time. They flowed toward him like a glowing river, bathing him in the light of their majestic horror.
The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
page 590 of 881 (Amazon Kindle Version)
"You said half a hand."
He rose on his elbows. "Right. Time to go."
Another hand passed before they saw the sign, rising out of the wavering heat. First a long line of fencing, tall chain-link with coils of barbed wire at the top, and then, a hundred meters inside the open gate, the small sentry house and the sign standing beside it.
YOU ARE ENTERING THE TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER. DANGER. UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE. DO NOT LEAVE THE ROAD.
"Unexploded ordnance." Michael's face was compacted in fierce squint. "What does that mean?"
"It means watch your step, Circuit." Alicia directed her voice to everyone. "It could be bombs, or maybe mines. Single file, try to step in the footprints of the person in front of you."
"What's that?" Mausami was pointing with one hand, the other held over her brow against the glare. "Are they buildings?"
They were buses: thirty-two of them parked in two closely spaced lines, their yellow paint almost entirely rubbed away. Peter stepped toward the closest bus, at the rear of the line. The breeze had died; the only sound came from their footsteps on the hardpan. Below windows covered in heavy-gauge wire were the words DESERT CENTER UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT. He clambered up the dune of sand that was pushed against it and peered inside. More sand had blown through, subsuming the benches in wavelike drifts. Birds had roosted in the ceiling, staining the walls with the white paint of their droppings.
"Hey! Look at this!" Caleb called.
They followed his voice around to the far side. Tipped onto its side was the shell of some kind of small aircraft.
"It's a helicopter," said Michael.
Caleb was standing on the top of the fuselage. Before Peter could speak, Caleb had pulled the door open, like a hatch, and dropped down inside it.
"Hightop," Alicia called, "be careful."
"It's okay! It's empty!" They heard him rummaging around the interior; a moment later, his head popped through the hatch. "Nothing here, just a couple slims." He chinned himself up. He slid down the fuselage and showed them what he'd found. "They were wearing these."
A pair of necklaces, tarnished from exposure. To each was attached a silver disk. Peter used some of his water to rinse the tags clean.
Sullivan, Joseph D. O+ 098879254 USMC Rom. Cath. Gomez, Manuel R. AB- 859720152 USMC No pref.
"USMC - that's Marine Corps," Hollis said. "You should put these back where you found them, Caleb."
Caleb snatched the necklaces from Peter's hand, clutching them protectively against his chest. "No way. I'm keeping these. I found them, fair and square."
"Hightop, they were soldiers."
Caleb's voice was suddenly shrill. "So what? They never came back, did they? The soldiers were supposed to come back for us, and they never did."
For a moment, no one spoke. "That's what this place is, isn't it?" Sara said. "Auntie used to tell stories about it. How the First Ones came from the cities, to ride the buses up the mountain."
Peter had heard the stories, too. He'd always thought of them as just that, stories. But Sara was right; that's what this place was. More than the buses themselves, or the fallen helicopter with its dead soldiers inside, the stillness told him so. It was more than the simple absence of sound; it was the silence of something stopped.
From 4/18/1988 ( the United States Navy Operation Praying Mantis ) To 6/8/2010 is 8086 days
8086 = 4042 + 4044
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/26/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day makes his first landing the Jupiter moon Callisto ) is 4042 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/28/1976 ( my biological brother Thomas Reagan the civilian and privately financed astronaut in solar system deep space in his privately financed atom-pulse propulsion spaceship this day launched from the Jupiter moon Callisto to return to the planet Earth ) is 4044 days
From 1/8/1960 ( premiere US TV series episode "The Twilight Zone"::"Third from the Sun" ) To 6/8/2010 is 18414 days
18414 = 9207 + 9207
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/17/1991 ( the date of record of my United States Navy Medal of Honor as Kerry Wayne Burgess chief warrant officer United States Marine Corps circa 1991 officially the United States Apache attack helicopter pilot ) is 9207 days
The City of Mirrors (#3, The Passage Trilogy)
Chapter 14
(Fanning) Their appetites knew no moderation; unguided they would bring down swift and total destruction upon us all. They were mine to command, but how to make them follow?
What they needed was a god.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 5:51 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 05/25/2026
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