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The article kept mentioning “faith.” Skydivers are induced into and graduate up through a world in which faith plays a fundamental role. They must believe in their instructors; in the equipment; in the staff packing their rigs; in tiny ring-pulls, clips and clip-releases, strips of canvas, satin, s…

a whole new Order of anthropological experience seemed to burst open and fulgurate before me, its pieces glittering and dancing madly

There were still unfinished bits, though: gaping lacunae where the carapace gave way to reveal guttery of half-laid floors

the more generic, therefore, the more pure, the closer to an unvariegated or unscrambled archetype.

in the no-man’s-land between its territory and the next, the blank stretches of the map, those interstitial zones where light, bending and kinking round impossible topographies, produces mirages