you can tell it 's a jet because there are n't noisy propellers . `` no ... it came in a little after midnight about a hundred miles off the pacific coast . his toes went numb , and then his fingers . he was staring hard at me , frowning . one can not be buried with holes in his socks . he could escape , live his life . `` love , that is what you understand , '' she said . do n't ask me to do that ever again . '' 