Indeed I felt that way too when reading passages such as: "As I was looking around, I was struck for an instant by the eeriness of the scene: here I was, attac

Indeed I felt that way too when reading passages such as: "As I was looking around, I was struck for an instant by the eeriness of the scene: here I was, attached, like an unwanted child, by an umbilicus to a gargantuan mother who was fleeing across the sky at 200 knots as though from some unnamed danger. Far below us was a broken layer of clouds that filtered the sun glare over the Pacific." Wonderfully poetic and I enjoyed it, but yes, wordy.