{[O] at Peace}[1st July 1988]

[Redbook5:197-198][19880701.1753]{[O] at Peace}[1st July 1988]

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I have been meaning to write for some time – that I have noticed, that nowadays when I envisage the [O] it floats peacefully (but purposefully) in a horizontal attitude across the hills and valleys, seeming to move slowly only because it is so huge; when I was in London, it was (so far as I recall) always moving extremely fast, so that it would have come and gone almost before you realised what it was; and as often as not it would be in a vertical alignment, i.e. at right angles to the ground – 'on its side' – or turning that way.*

Then I saw it only from the ground; now I see it sometimes from the ground, but more easily from slightly above. Then, as now, I would also see it from the inside, i.e. out through its transparent 'vizor' or hull; only now it is much larger, and shows not only the ground, or the Globe, but staggeringly beautiful views of Space, orange-glowing dust clouds like chiffon pierced with bright Stars, so close that you feel able to reach out your hand to them, from a flight-deck across which the travellers on the [O] pass peacefully about their business.**

*[Not sure that this accords with descriptions at the time: see [Redbook2:301][19830826:0045b]{A Dream of Missed Directions: Three Chapels and the White Hotel [continued]}[26th August 1983];

but cf [Redbook2:335][19840515:1715c]{A Dream of the [O]}[15^th May 1984];

& see [Redbook4:59][19870820:1800b]{The [O]}[20^th August 1987];

& cf [Redbook4:254][19871221:1955f]{The [O]}[21st December 1987];

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**[cf. The description near the end of [0]. The two descriptions, although different, are not necessarily incompatible. <20180622>]

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