Alex Patterson’s Reviews > Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air > Status Update

I can't stop thinking about this sentence I read today, which narrates a nineteenth-century hot-air balloonist as he sailed into a cloud and, inside, heard music from below resounding as if present:

'He was delighted when he entered a thick cloud with particularly high hygrometer reading, and suddenly found himself in the middle of a concert hall in which 'excellent orchestral music' was playing.'

Having thrice read Joe Moran's style-guide 'First You Write a Sentence', I find myself using its principles to measure any prose I read. The principles fail this, Holmes' book, in a few areas. One area is how Holmes links up sentences, where he too often uses adverbial conjunctions ('moreover', 'nonetheless', 'interestingly'), as if scared the reader might not be following his line of thought.