An Englishman Looks at the World
Book Excerptn we went on from those anticipations of swaying insecurity to speculations about the psychological and physiological effects of flying. Most people who look down from the top of a cliff or high tower feel some slight qualms of dread, many feel a quite sickening dread. Even if men struggled high into the air, we asked, wouldn't they be smitten up there by such a lonely and reeling dismay as to lose all self-control? And, above all, wouldn't the pitching and tossing make them quite horribly sea-sick?I have always been a little haunted by that last dread. It gave a little undertow of funk to the mood of lively curiosity with which I got aboard the waterplane this morning--that sort of faint, thin funk that so readily invades one on the verge of any new experience; when one tries one's first dive, for example, or pushes off for the first time down an ice run. I thought I should very probably be sea-sick--or, to be more precise, air-sick; I thought also that I might be very giddy, and that I might get tho
yazar | H G Wells |
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Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 1.55 x 22.86 cm |
Tarafından yayınlandı | 28 Ağustos 2020 |
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yazar | H G Wells |
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isbn 13 | 979-8675002337 |
Yayımcı | Independently Published |
Boyutlar ve boyutlar | 15.24 x 1.55 x 22.86 cm |
DE OLDUĞU GİBİ | B08GVLWD38 |
Tarafından yayınlandı An Englishman Looks at the World | 28 Ağustos 2020 |