Environmental Lapse Rate

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“I have proceeded ... to prevent the lapse from ... the point of blending between wakefulness and sleep.... Not ... that I can render the point more than a point—but that I can startle myself ... into wakefulness—and thus transfer the point ... into the realm of Memory—convey its impressions,... to a situation where ... I can survey them with the eye of analysis.”
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“All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.”
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