. . . when it comes right down to it, Jim doesn't know how to try to fly. Everything he does know - and he knows a considerable amount - states clearly that it isn't possible, not for him, not without outside assistance.

Some might find this situation awkward or embarrassing. Jim doesn't. Something he doesn't know and can't work out at due speed is too rare to be anything other than deeply absorbing. He forgets his audience, his surroundings, the sense of time passing, everything except trying to find something new.