#253 Love and Hydrogen- Jim Shepard
Gnuss and Meinert are maintenance workers aboard the
Hindenburg Zeppelin in May1937 on its last voyage across the Atlantic. They are
young, adventurous and madly in love. Life aboard a Zeppelin is dangerous as
they must climb and scurry outside to inspect and make repairs.
“The propellers are twenty feet long. When the men are down
on their hands and knees adjusting the vibration dampers, those props are a
foot and a half away. The sound is like God losing his temper, kettledrums in
the sinuses, fists in the face.”
“They’ve taken chances as if cultivating a death wish.” This
statement could be for them selves and their chosen profession, their forbidden
love which would get them fired and worse, or it could be a statement about The
Hindenburg endeavor itself.
But life is short, and as life passes, and dreams are
sought, you may ask yourself: “How much happiness is someone entitled to?”
Notable Passage: "Life, motion, everything was untrammeled
and without limitation pathless ours."
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