Magellan's Log: Iris Murdoch: Falling

"A complete fall into the void, something which I had often imagined on airplanes, is of course the most terrible thing of all. Hands, feet, muscles, all the familiar protective mechanisms of the body are suddenly useless. The enmity of matter is unleashed against the frail breakable crushable animal form, always perhaps an alien in this hard mineral gravitational scene."

--The Sea, the Sea.