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Lippold's pylon and his ideas about it are among the few cheerful things to turn up so far in what looks like a remarkably cheerless new year. There is something very ingratiating about, a man who can detach himself from reality in a world were reality is terribly present in every newspaper, a world which might be far better off if it stopped worrying about atomic piles and concentrated on putting up pylons. Lippold asks that his sculpture get an annual polishing. It is an undemanding request in what has become a frighteningly demanding world, and we hope...
When Dr. Strehler finally gets his fireflies collected, they will not be allowed to sparkle for long. He intends to detach their luminous posteriors and extract from them luciferin-a substance which fascinates many scientists...
Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...
...Many . . . classified as psychopathic personalities have made creditable records in combat aviation. Flying offers special fascination to ... a schizoid makeup. These people whose desire [it is] to detach themselves from reality . . . find an ideal situation in the air. It is almost as if their actual fantasies were being lived out.. . . Expressions such as 'I get a feeling of power,' or 'It seems as though the world were at my feet,' are common in this type of flyer...
...Detach my blue brain. Give me drinking water. Look out for the 'mountains. Think of arsenic. Change the yellow ink. Remember last year. Remember the heat. We spit in the air and the nightingales spit...