Blurt!Commonplace Book

Dave Eggers

“Landing on the tarmac is something planes routinely do — in fact, it’s where they usually land — but with a jetpack, something unfortunate happens when the pilot lands on concrete. The jet turbines on the pilot’s back blow 800-degree exhaust on to the ground, and this heat has nowhere to go but out, spreading across the pavement like a bomb radius.”

posted Sep. 6, 2022, 8:00pm