The Long Airplane Ride

Up until 18 forty, when stevenson's rocket took its first smooth progress, all forms of human travel were aeotechnic. When i walked into my hotel on the lower side, i felt that i coud walk the whole way becausey because my body told me that that'd been doing. So that's howaus the book opens with an extended piece that's about a walk from london to new york. And in the middle of the walk, of course, is is a long airplane ride. It's only with the arrival of the ain, a mere hundred and 60 years ago, that all of this changes, that we stop having a physical apprehension of space