It is rather that profoundly in the consciousness of the race the idea of flight is associated with human aspiration and release from physical limitations. Now, on the very threshold of achievement, that dream becomes a nightmare threatening an awful vengeance for its perversion and in desperation the soul of man [sic] reaches backward for the untarnished symbol of his hope.

— Selden Rodman, The Poetry of Flight

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