Tuesday, October 5, 2021

Opening paragraphs......................

      It was a modified bomber.  A Vickers Vimy.  All wood and linen and wire.  She was wide and lumbering, but Alcock still thought her a nippy little thing.  He patted her each time he climbed onboard and slid into the cockpit beside Brown.  One smooth motion of his body.  Hand on the throttle, feet on the rudder bar, he could already feel himself aloft.

-Colum McCann,  Trans Atlantic

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