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Okay Snipers last one in the series of eleven celebrating

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neil armstrong and buzz and eagle You know things are

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not as plans even be smooth but then looks movement

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going Finally after two and a half is he's only

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time to go All right Which sense Most effectively concludes

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the essay went last sentence of the whole thing The

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long day was done but the eagle was gnome or

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rest Um kind of weird No more rest ful What

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What is that I'd say they were back in the

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eagle Not on tiny cabin noise home him and sound

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sound sound kind of legend but that goes no more

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rescue Just sounds like a weird phrasing like old timey

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british thing that's kind of out of context In the

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whole essay here We're trying to make you sensitive to

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these little subtle things because well that's basically what you're

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being tested on All right Well the essay starts with

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sleep mentions sleep a couple of times in the middle

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and even has a title that instant the idea of

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sleep or lack thereof on that's a bad thing a

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sleep reference is therefore a nice and tidy way to

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circular early include the passage it's also a way to

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signal that the narrative has ended The astronauts will finally

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reach that elusive goal of sleeping right like four weddings

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and a funeral he always one end in a funeral

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and a death and or a birthright That's how movies

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work well so that's it so it's deep it was

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time to go home to earth for a good night's

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sleep Yeah that sounds reasonable It's the end All right

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Loserville one's ending with a sleepless eagle leaves the narrative

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open It also leaves the astronauts still in space Now

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if you're doing this is a movie you would end

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with a of course because it leaves it open for

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a sequel When the alien grabs this ship and says

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in space no one can hear you scream and then

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everyone screams right Well for the story to be complete

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we need to know even indirectly that well the astronauts

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will return to earth and that they will sleep for

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chance to dream eerie sunlight in the here has similar

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unfinished effect on the narrative talking about the astronauts duty

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in a paragraph about a restless journey back to earth

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comes out of nowhere Plus we were never told what

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their duty was in the first place No it's not 00:02:14.423 --> [endTime] that kind of duty

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