Dear Mr. Schatzkin, dear friends,
Mr. Schatzkin, I would like to thank you deeply for what you did with this book. It is an inestimable service - you cannot imagine what a service. You did all the painstaking work - travelling, writting, meeting people, spending money, putting your heart-blood into it.
You have been and still are a powerful, most powerful catalyst and a veritable nexus where the different streams come together.
We sit here before our screens and click on our mouses making connections. You did not have such a luxury, nor the comfort.
As for Dr. Brown and those of us who gaze at his brilliant work - it is best summed up by this Pink Floyd song:
PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT THE BOTH VERSIONS OF THE VIDEO, BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT.
The first is from the very day the video premiered:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jx3DtXyE ... re=related
The second is even better:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb-Nacm- ... re=related
LEARNING TO FLY
Into the distance, a ribbon of black
Stretched to the point of no turning back
A flight of fancy on a windswept field
Standing alone my senses reeled
A fatal attraction holding me fast, how
Can I escape this irresistible grasp?
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i
Ice is forming on the tips of my wings
Unheeded warnings, I thought I thought of everything
No navigator to guide my way home
Unladened, empty and turned to stone
A soul in tension thats learning to fly
Condition grounded but determined to try
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i
Friction lock - set.
Mixture - rich
Propellers - fully forward
Flaps - set - 10 degrees
Engine gauges and suction - check
Mixture set to maximum percent - recheck
Flight instruments...
Altimeters - check both
(garbled word) - on
Navigation lights - on
Strobes - on
(to tower): confirm 3-8-echo ready for departure
(tower): hello again, this is now 129.4
(to tower): 129.4. its to go.
(tower): you may commence your takeoff, winds over 10 knots.
(to tower): 3-8-echo
Easy on the brakes. take it easy. its gonna roll this time.
Just hand the power gradually, and it...
Above the planet on a wing and a prayer,
My grubby halo, a vapour trail in the empty air,
Across the clouds I see my shadow fly
Out of the corner of my watering eye
A dream unthreatened by the morning light
Could blow this soul right through the roof of the night
Theres no sensation to compare with this
Suspended animation, a state of bliss
Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i
In deepest respect to Dr. Brown,
Andrew M. - Cant keep my eyes from the circling skies
Tongue-tied and twisted just an earth-bound misfit, i