On the way upstairs, I hear a deep, droning buzz, loud as a distant engine.
It occurred to me, as I tucked into curried beans on toast, that for the first time in this trip I could not hear even a distant engine - nothing except birds and insects.
Soon, one of the Fire Department's Hose Tenders arrived in the lagoon carrying 5000 feet of 5 inches hose, followed shortly by another hose tender they connected to Phoenix to relay water to more distant engine companies.
And later that night, in bed, you heard the roar of distant motorcycle engines as daredevils streaked by, racing and pulling wheelies while standing single-legged on their saddles like fearless high-speed ballerinas, always one step ahead of the police, one step ahead of a fatal collision, except when they were not.
Dispirited, they drifted in rough seas all that morning and into the afternoon, when they heard a distant jet engine.
In Aga Bay, sun falls through holes in the beautiful stones, perforated like sea sponge, and the only sounds are honeybees and goat bells among the olive trees, punctuated by an occasional distant boat engine.
The distant hum of engines interrupted their thoughts, and they all turned to look at the horizon.
It features a 7.0-liter, 425-horsepower V-8 engine, a distant relative of the early aircraft engines Chrysler built during World War II and a forerunner of today's well-known Hemi power plants.
But in the end, Battelle's strongest case is made for how unimaginable life would be without Google, and how in the not-so-distant future search engines of all types will become the most ubiquitous user interfaces we have.
The jet engine that powers an aircraft is a pretty distant cousin to the engine that powers a car.
