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Tom Tallerico
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lovely though they seem in retrospect, steam locomotives were labour-intensive and inefficient machines, and by the 1950s it had become difficult to attract staff to work with them. As for the competition – seen even now as a virtue of the
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“Some might consider a large open-cockpit biplane to be an impractical extravagance, but I like to think of it as an exercise in selective minimalism. I believe it was either Confucius or John D. Rockefeller who said we need only a very few possessions in life, if they’re exactly the right ones. I felt we were destined to own a Stearman.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“A fellow journalist I knew once said that a great city should ideally be a place where every neighborhood might serve as a stage set for an opera. No matter which way you turn you’re presented with some kind of charm or grandeur, regardless of whether the area is poor or wealthy. Paris has that quality for me, and so does New Orleans. Both places are also endlessly walkable, another prime attraction. No cab required.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“Hotdogging at supersonic speeds typically brought out the rascal or the imp in a flier. But Armstrong was neither. He was a quiet man—reticent to the point of opacity. He suffered small talk grudgingly, he laughed genuinely, though not often, and he got lost in his work with a silence and a laser-like focus. He also seemed to some to be a very haunted man.”
― Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
― Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon, the Untold Story
“I have a pet theory that much of the best music and poetry comes from people who grow up with some sense of isolation, be it social or geographical.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
“On one of those evenings, I sat back in my chair, looked at the stars, and thought about the photos of distant galaxies we’d seen at the observatory that day. I was trying to get my mind around the always-troubling concept of infinity when I came up with the only two metaphysical questions I’ve ever found worth pondering: 1. Why isn’t there nothing? 2. And if there were nothing, where would it be? This is what happens when you mix cheap red wine with amateur astronomy while bats flit around your campsite.”
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
― Landings in America: Two People, One Summer, and a Piper Cub
Tom’s 2025 Year in Books
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