Sunday, June 7, 2026

It is impossible for people to fly -- but they did

This afternoon I was teaching the construction "It is [adjective] for [noun] to [verb]." After giving several examples, I asked one of my students to make a sentence. He thought for a second and said, "It is impossible for people to fly."

In the evening, I finish reading Powerless. When I closed the document and went to the e-reader's home screen, it displayed the book I had most recently added to my library, one I had downloaded shortly after the levitation sync in "Levitation, October 3, Ed Sullivan, and that scene in Communion" (May 30).

The book is called They Flew: A History of the Impossible, by Carlos Eire.
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