One simply must realize the world and all it contains are illusion. By "miracles" small and large, Shimoda whets Richard's interest, but Shimoda claims there is nothing miraculous in what he does. Shimoda knows it, but Richard does not - yet. Like attracts like, he says and explains they are fellow messiahs. Fearing what the crowd will do and knowing the fate of messiahs, Richard flees.Īgains all odds, Shimoda finds Richard and sets his plane down beside him. He finds the man mysterious and has a sense of foreboding in his company, but is ready to give up the lonely life awhile, that is, until Shimoda attracts too much attention through the "miracle" healing a crippled man. They quickly bond through a love of flying and mechanics, and Richard rakes in more money than ever before, teamed up with Donald W. Richard, who for years has been flying his antique biplane around the Midwest offering folks ten-minute rides for three dollars a turn, is surprised to spot another gypsy flier on the ground in Ferris, Indiana, and swoops down to meet him. The teacher is assassinated, and the pupil records his story before facing his own destiny as another reluctant messiah. Shimoda, teaches the other, the narrator, Richard, how to see the world and everything in it as illusion. Two itinerant fliers meet on a Midwestern field and the one, a retired Messiah, Donald W.
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