Beginning ~ with hand-printed pages

Beginning

Yes, that's the first page.  I almost quit reading when pages 2 and 3 and 4 continued like this, but it didn't go on forever.  It switches to regular print on page 23, or at least the print I chose for my Kindle, the print that can be changed and/or enlarged.  Okay, I decided to keep reading.

Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah ~ by Richard Bach, 1977, philosophy/metaphysics, 127 pages

In the cloud-washed airspace between the cornfields of Illinois and blue infinity, a man puts his faith in the propeller of his biplane.  For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders — until he meets Donald Shimoda — a former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.

Illusions (which I wrote about on TWOsday) is the follow-up to Bach's bestseller Jonathan Livingston Seagull, which I first read in the 1970s and then again in 2014 (click on the title to read about that book).  In this book, Bach takes to the air to discover the ageless truths that give our souls wings:  that people don't need airplanes to soar, that even the darkest clouds have meaning once we lift ourselves above them, and that messiahs can be found in the unlikeliest places — like hay fields, one-traffic-light midwestern towns, and (most of all) deep within ourselves.

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