Night landings were a routine part of carrier operations — and perhaps the best of all examples of how a man’s accumulated

Night landings were a routine part of carrier operations — and perhaps the best of all examples of how a man’s accumulated good works did him no good whatsoever at each new step up the great pyramid, of how each new step was an absolute test, and of how each bright new day’s absolutes — chosen or damned — were built into the routine.

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