jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“It turned out that when Miss Level had asked Tiffany if she was scared of heights, it had been the wrong question. Tiffany was not afraid of heights at all. She could walk past tall trees without batting an eyelid. Looking up at huge towering mountains didn’t bother her a bit.
What she was afraid of, although she hadn’t realized it until this point, was depths. She was afraid of dropping such a long way out of the sky…”
from ‘A Hat Full of Sky’ by Terry Pratchett