"As in the case of the arms, all muscular power was lost in an instant from my back and neck. I dimly saw Mr.Coxwell in the ring, and endeavoured to speak, but could not do so; when in an instant intense black darkness, and the optic nerve lost power suddenly. I was still conscious with as active a brain as while writing this. I thought I had been seized with asphyxia, and that I should experience no more, as death would come unless we speedily descended. Other thoughts were actively entering my mind when I suddenly became unconscious, as though going to sleep. I could not tell anything about the sense of hearing: the perfect stillness of the regions six miles from the earth - and at this time we were between six and seven miles high - is such that no sound reaches the ear. "
Too bad you can't hear the music, mr. Glashier. Well then, until no other June
