The pseudonym "Philo Vaihinger" has been abandoned. All posts have been and are written by me, Joseph Auclair.

Saturday, May 18, 2013

A world of differences

Those photos of high iron men moving about with complete confidence at the tops of great bridges and skyscrapers make people of ordinary courage marvel.

How superhuman, even inhuman must they seem to those with fear of heights!

Colonel Washington wrote after his first engagement in the French and Indian war that he had found the sound of bullets whistling past rather charming.

I have been told by veterans of combat most men find it an effort not to wet themselves.

And then there are the ones who are wholly overcome with terror.

As numerous or rare, perhaps,  as the fearless ones.

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