Is He Alone Who Has Courage On

By Day, Or On A Cloudless Night, A Pilot May Drink The Wine Of The Gods, But It Has An Earthly Taste; He's A God Of The Earth, Like One Of The Grecian Deities Who Lives On Worldly Mountains And Descended For Intercourse With Men. But At Night, Over A Stratus Layer, All Sense Of The Planet May Disappear. You Know That Down Below, Beneath That Heavenly Blanket Is The Earth, Factual And Hard. But It's An Intellectual Knowledge; It's A Knowledge Tucked Away In The Mind; Not A Feeling That Penetrates The Body.

Isn't It Strange That We Talk Least About The Things We Think About Most?

But Accuracy Means Something To Me. It's Vital To My Sense Of Values. I've Learned Not To Trust People Who Are Inaccurate. Every Aviator Knows That If Mechanics Are Inaccurate. Aircraft Crash.

And If At Times You Renounce Experience And Mind's Heavy Logic, It Seems That The World Has Rushed Along On Its Orbit, Leaving You Alone Flying Above A Forgotten Cloud Bank, Somewhere In The Solitude Of Interstellar Space.

I Hope You Either Take Up Parachute Jumping Or Stay Out Of Single Motored Airplanes At Night.