¶ Flight
Index Entry
Flight:
(a) “The flight is continuous.”
(b) “People say, ‘How was your trip?’ But the trip is constant. It’s a very local pattern compared with Earth going around the Sun at 60,000 mph which it does so very competently that we don’t tend to think of it.”
¶ Citations
- (a) RBF response to Mary Anne Kenner on greeting him at Friendship airport with the query, “How was your flight?” 3 Oct’73
- (b) RBF in Johns Hopkins lecture, baltimore, 3 Oct’73
