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William Burroughs said that words are an around-the-world, ox-cart way of doing things, awkward instruments, eventually to be laid aside.
Winter is around-the-world balloon season--it's when the jet stream runs consistently west to east--so the last few weeks have witnessed, and the next few weeks will witness, an orgy of circumnavigation attempts.
The NYT lead communicates the vast, unprecedented scope of the revel, noting besides the hometown $7 million bash attended by perhaps 2 million people, an "around-the-world series of golden moments" in the Pacific, Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
The around-the-world balloon race, by contrast, is a nonsensical exercise.
The nonstop, around-the-world balloon flight is the only remaining aviation milestone.