The Explanation
(for those who require one)

And, of course, that is what all of this is -- all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs -- that song, endlesly reincarnated -- born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 -- same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

The City: Miami #11


Original Caption:

Miami -- Pilots Bill Barris and Dick Riedel receive some in-flight assistance from a speeding car as they try to break the flying endurance record. While guiding the 'Sunkist Lady' above the runway of a Miami airport, cans of gasoline and food are handed up by men in the speeding car. The two California pilots have been flying continuously for one hundred and sixty-eight hours, attempting to break the record of 726 hours set in 1939. (1949)
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