JM: Thank you, Andrea. The correct translation for the
aircraft episode can be found in Zembla, in D.B.Johnson's article you
remember so well.!
"At the immense altitude...,
the aeronauts huddled together for warmth while the lost little soloist, still
the object of my intense envy notwithstanding his plight, drifted into an abyss
of frost and stars �alone."