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    On a mission to escape chronophobia

    Oct 03, 2020 2 minutes
    LINDSAY SLOGROVE lindsay.slogrove@inl.co.za

    “SLIPPING the surly bonds of Earth” was balm for the Covid-bound soul this week.

    The phrase comes from a soaring sonnet, titled , by John Gillespie Magee jr, a 19-year-old American airman who was killed in action near Britain in December 1941. It’s tragic that someone so impassioned by flight didn’t live

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