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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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San Francisco, 2015.04.19

As we came over the last range of mountains I spotted another plane coming from the south (left). It was running along the range of mountains about 50m above the clouds, spinning two contrails that swirled in its wake. We passed within about 300m of each other, at different altitudes. It was all over in about twenty seconds; startling but beautiful.

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The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

—Marcus Tullius Cicero