It said Sam wouldn't be able to leap outside his own lifetime. I always imagined that one point where he stepped into the imaging chamber and vanished was the "end" of his lifetime. He could leap from that point on to any point of his birth.
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I was a sailor. I was born upon the tide and with the sea I did abide.
I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow.
And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed. But I am living still.
--The Highway Man
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