. _:vb7016320 "It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;\u00A0[\u2026]."@en . _:vb7016316 . _:vb7016319 "1935, George Goodchild, chapter 8, in Death on the Centre Court:"@en . _:vb7016320 "2013 June 7, David Simpson, \u201CFantasy of navigation\u201D, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 36:"@en . "1" . _:vb7016317 "Almost anyone can change a light bulb."@en . _:vb7016319 "\u201C[\u2026] Anyone who knows me will tell you I'm straight, but this time I had six thousand quid at stake. [\u2026] I laid 'em long odds because it wasn't in the nature of things that Wynbolt could beat all of them champs. Then\u2014then he smashed one after another, until I got windy\u2014nervous as you might say. [\u2026]\u201D"@en . _:vb7016318 "The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."@en . _:vb7016316 "Any person; anybody."@en . _:vb7016318 . _:vb7016319 . _:vb7016317 . _:vb7016318 "1891, George Bernard Shaw, Quintessence of Ibsenism:"@en . . _:vb7016320 .