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THE MOMENT the HS1 leapt aboard the jet, Werner Rotwang saw his moment of reckoning.
There would be no more chances. What remained was the inevitable thing he'd been trying to escape his entire life. The glimpse of paradise opened before him was all he would ever see, and, if his aim was true, all anyone would see. Something about it made Rotwang giggle as he pushed the yoke down and drove his jet into the Grid. His blurred vision and the pain when the glass and fire flew against him detracted nothing from his broader sense of where he was, what was occuring, and what had occurred in all the seconds of his fifty years, three months, and twenty-five days.