The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
Even modern English people are imperious, superior, ridden by class. All of the hypocrisy and the difficulties that are endemic in being British also make it an incredibly fertile place culturally. A brilliant place to live. Sad but true.
It would be lovely to live in a culture where calmness was the aim.
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
The sensation of flying is incredible, and it's such a miraculous notion to go into the air and see the world without delineation.
Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.
There's something very fine and lucid and rich in this tradition of the English actor.
To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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