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After we had knocked off work , and cleared up decks for the night , my friend S - - - came on board , and spent an hour with me in our berth between decks . Already , volunteers are organizing this year 's event , a 3.0 kilometer fun-run around the Lab site , which will culminate in a party - - complete with food , music and prizes - - at the cafeteria . But beyond the easy crowd appeal of robotic sport , the researchers here are far more enthusiastic about a different creation - - one that lives in the wires and silicon woven throughout the walls of this building : a " software robot " they call Rity . My friend S - - - was with me , and turning our backs upon the vessels , we walked slowly along , talking of the pleasure of being our own masters , of the times past , and when we were free in the midst of friends , in America , and of the prospect of our return ; and planning where we would go , and what we would do , when we reached home . This he had kept to himself ; nor did the camp ever notice that he had ceased to sing that eightieth stanza he had made about the A B C - - the stanza which was not printable . One man we had lost overboard ; another had been taken aft as clerk ; and a third had run away ; so that , beside S - - - and myself , there were only three able seamen and one boy of twelve years of age . S - - - and myself determined to keep as much together as possible , though we knew that it would not do to cut our shipmates ; for , knowing our birth and education , they were a little suspicious that we would try to put on the gentleman when we got ashore , and would be ashamed of their company ; and this wo n't do with Jack . The scene is late morning on a scraggy piece of the North Carolina coast - - historians later placed it at 10:35 a.m. - - and the moment would signal the emergence of the aerial age . The weddings are n't particularly memorable , except for the number of times their characters are seen having sex with a member of the wedding party - - and taking calls from each other on their infernal cell phones during sex - - but the pyre that Keaton makes of her career with this ghastly contrivance is unforgettable . " S - - - and I followed in our shipmates ' wake , knowing that to refuse to drink with them would be the highest affront , but determining to slip away at the first opportunity . Also seen as a bid to unite the party - - and winning broad applause - - was Jiang 's decision to give a place on the committee to Hua Guofeng , Mao 's disgraced heir .