Weight overtakes speed as cabin crew in thick make-up tong hot towels towards untanning faces. We are 33 thousand feet above perhaps the caste system Inter v Juventus, the Kurds Somalia’s hungry white teeth a school of sardines? in our given corridor among the aluminium birds when the engines stop. Woody Allen’s on screens or, as appropriate, Arnold S. Dutchman’s on his fourth whisky full-nappy kid’s catwalking the aisle her parents in denial outside the matchbox loos queues are extended by Mile High Clubbers poking fun at comfort. A 777-300 briefly glides before push comes to dive autopilot washes its…
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