wants to slide away to that everlastingly puzzling Thing that happened to him that morning on the Kanawha When he lost his bearings and North and South had changed places—     No, I don't call that living, whatever the rest of you call it."     We were silent again till that woman spoke up, "And what was it, Captain, that kept him from going back and being a pilot?"     "Well, ma'am," after a moment the pilot patiently answered,     "I don't hardly believe that I could explain it exactly."

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