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With the Night Mail: A Story of 2000 A.D. / (Together with extracts from the comtemporary magazine in which it appeared)

Chapter 19: Transcriber's note
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The work alternates a framed narrative of a night-mail aeroplane's transoceanic run with mock-official material from an aerial board of control: navigation bulletins, casualty and missing notices, weather and route advisories, reviews and advertising interjections. The fiction sequence follows preparations, departure and a hazardous high-level journey, while the paratext builds a richly imagined technological bureaucracy and social world, using technical detail and reportage-like tone to evoke the logistics, dangers, and everyday rhythms of a near-future air-mail system.


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Transcriber's note

The following changes have been made to the text:

Page 30: "passenger's faces" changed to "passengers' faces".

Page 41: "Instead of shuting" changed to "Instead of shutting".

Page 68: "orgie" changed to "orgy".

Page 71: "earth,and water" changed to "earth, and water".

Page 82: "Milwall and Buenos Ayres" changed to "Millwall and Buenos Ayres".