The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 89

He tried to comfort her. “A lot of ideas sound good. Like antipodal tunnels.”

Her face was blank. Like a panther’s. Right before it eats you.

“Tubes straight through the Earth. Jump in the hole. Fall faster and faster – cross the center – fall slower and slower until you reach the surface and step right out onto the other side.

“But, problems.” He counted on his fingers. “One, heat. Two, pressure. Three, the places you’d want to go – their antipode is somewhere in an ocean. Four, the terminal...