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becomes that relm of ones earthly dreams, This mode of travel has created

a problem of perspective and makes it difficult to know just what instance

or angle is to be used as the starting point. Does one describe from
the superior or inferior position, or from a pivot point in the center of
a vast sphere.

In general the procession of sky events have a general pattern but
differing in details from day to day or even from hour to hour and part-
icularly is t is true in regard to the changing of moods. In ponhaay he
spectacle is one continuous presentationof an ever changing world. For
inetance the two morning observetions had no relation to a cyclic pattern.
That is why it is so difficult to analyse or give description to these
apparently heterogenous events. With such unlimited possibilities of form
and mood description will of necessity never be complete.

The darkness proceeding dawn is a logical point to begin and at the
time when the trip started. At this time this new world is nondescript
except for the usual end familiar heavenly stars in their proper places
and presenting one of the few sites that retain their normal perspective.
Other than the white and red-hot exhaust and faint outline of the engines
the world is dark and a feeling of the emensity of the universe prevails.
An occaisional and su@den bump and shaking up will remind one that the
plane is passing through or by a cloud mags.

There are, in the course of the day certain periods or phases which,
however fine the intergradations, are distinct. The first is one of
darkness, then a world of grey followed by a pefiod of suggested color
of pinks and yellows leading suddenly to the sharp red intensities of the
sun rise, their gradual merging into yellows and finally a cessation of all
color with a replacement of intense white, contrasting sunward but delicate
in the opposite limits of the sky to the west. Finally emerges those
variations of shade and intensities of the normal daylight.

. Early twilight is eagerly anticipated as it holds that promise of

personal security. Eyes are dependant but instruments are not elways in-—