Word: mid-journey
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Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. Modern flight's literary Daedalus soars again, though the hot, worshipful prose tends to melt this biography in mid-journey...
...late August day on one of those Southern New England trains which are in the habit of slowly running from Boston to Woods Hole. The train being in mid-journey and no immediate prospect of things quickly becoming either better or worse, the Vagabond was perhaps justified in assuming his habitual vacant air, which is to say neither better nor worse, glad...
...should be almost equally pleased to throw light on the abrupt downfall of this lost people. For human interest, after all, is the fundamental appeal in this riddle, and one cannot stop wondering what became of the sailors who abandoned a full-rigged, sea-worthy ship in mid-journey...