and that must have been when he was really dead , and all the wonderful things were shown to him , and the other dead were there , and he understood , understood all the simplest and the most complex things , and why he had to go back , yes , the doorway , the promise , shot down suddenly and weightlessly into the body lying on the deck of the ship , the body that had been dead drowned for an hour out there , into the aches and the pains , and come back alive staring up , knowing it all , ready to do exactly what they had wanted of him .