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[[upper margin note]] [[strikethrough]] the birth of a? [[/strikethrough]]
[[strikethrough]] the smoldering anger of a? [[/strikethrough]][/upper margin note]]

a typhoon form, [[strikethrough]] or [[/strikethrough]]a volcano smolder. It is difficult to describe the unfamiliar sights, and even more difficult to convey the feelings engendered (evoked) by those sights. While flying over the Hawaiian Islands, several astronauts have marvelled that the islands “look just like they do on a map“. That exclamation is reassuring,(especially to mapmakers?) but, (it) does not seem particularly amazing or descriptive. [[strikethrough]]But[[/strikethrough]]Yet to [[strikethrough]]the [[/strikethrough]] astronauts it is descriptive: it really does look like that part of the world has been carpeted with pages from Rand-McNally. 

[[right margin note]] This is lovely [/right margin note]]

[[right margin note]] Is there a sensation of such a speed?[/right margin note]] 

[[left margin note]] [[strikethrough]Here's a place to suggest serenity [[/strikethrough][/left margin note]]


Racing along at a 5 mi/sec, the Space Shuttle circles the Earth once every 90 minutes. I found that at this speed, unless I kept my nose pressed to the window, it was almost impossible to keep track of where we were over the world. If I turned away for too long, even just to change film in a camera [correction camara], I might (could?) miss an entire land mass. [[strikethrough]] And [[/strikethrough]] It's embarrassing to float up to a window and have to ask your crewmates (a crewmate?), “What continent is this?“. In one (brief?) orbit we could see smoke [[strikethrough]]clouds [[/strikethrough]] billowing from (land clearing) fires that dot the entire east coast of Africa, and ice floes jostling for position in the Antarctic. We could see the Ganges river dumping its [[murky see color, not density, right?]]thick sediment-laden water into the Indian Ocean, and watch ominous hurricane clouds expanding and rising like biscuits in the oven of the Caribbean. 

[[right margin note]](I like using "and" to start a sentence - it takes courage - but here (given format) your next line should be a paragraph.[/right margin note]] 

[[right margin note]] Jesus, What an amazing metaphor![/right margin note]]

[[left margin note]]gorgeous![/left margin note]]

[[left margin note]] billowing is big, dot is small.[/left margin note]]


From this vantage point, I noticed that I was beginning to view the Earth with the eyes of a novice geologist. Mountain ranges, volcanoes, and river deltas appeared in salt-and-flour relief, and it was easy to [[strikethrough]] I could easily?[/strikethrough]] imagine the

[[bottom margin note]] a Kansas phrase? I like it. [/bottom margin note]]