Note: the following is a quote from the usenet newsgroup "rec.skydiving"

Subject: to Pioneer is the hard way
From: Pat Works
Date: 25 Aug 1995 19:23:10 GMT

: I saw your name and felt I ought to ask
: -- are you the "famous" Pat Works who pioneered
:so much of what skydiving is today?
:Earl Needham, Clovis, NM

Earl,
I can confidently respond positively to about one-third of your query. Thus: 1) huh?; 2) yep; 3) I dunno about the good parts.

I am Pat Works nearly all of the time. More nearly lately than not. I might have been famous at various points in my spotted career. However, since I never got caught, I'm free. Mostly, the he you think I am is not the me I thought I was. That guy is probably a myth or legend. In contrast, I am a skydancer or Texan.

And, like the fools who first took covered wagons across Death Valley in the 1800s, I too, am a *pioneer* in the sense that I used heavy slow equipment then that I would never consider using now.

Besides, if you can remember who he was that was, then you have yourself been around for a long long time.

Today I would like to remind myself that
All that ever was
and that which will be
Is happening now.
Enter now with me the unending present.

[get weird and go vertical]
crazy pat

Pat Works [Madden T. Works]
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