Oh, wow.

So in 1980, I set off speaking three phrases of Mandarin: Ni hao, hello; xie xie, thank you; and zai jian, goodbye.

And with [laughs] that wonderful ability to communicate, I went, sailed down the Yangtze River on a people steamer and then flew in a little Fokker aircraft-

Yeah.

You know, when I fell and broke my arm and took a year out of my professional life, post-operatively I was hooked up to a great variety of machines which recorded everything all of the time.

At North Shore Hospital post-surgery, I used to sit up at night and watch the night sky and the s- and the city lights while the machines quietly did their job, and all I wanted was for a human being to come and take my blood pressure.