Rambles Blog at Star Chamber

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In 1941, John Gillespie Magee, Jr of the Royal Canadian Air Force, experienced a sense of euphoria while in an acrobatic test flight in his Spitfire aircraft. But like fellow poet Saint-Exupéry, he captured those feelings while still aloft. A few weeks later, he mailed his writings to his parents, saying: “I am enclosing a verse I wrote the other day. It started at 30,000 feet, and was finished soon after I landed.” After his death i