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Description

This is from one of my favorite books: Fear of Flying, by Erica Jong.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General) French (General) North American (General) Ukrainian

Transcript

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There were 117 psychoanalysts on the pan am flight to Vienna And I had been treated by at least six of them and married a 7th. God knows it was a tribute either to the shrinks ineptitude or my own glorious un analyze ability that I was. Now, if anything more scared of flying than when I began my analytic adventures. Some 13 years earlier, my husband grabbed my hand therapeutically at the moment of takeoff, christ. It's like ice, he said he ought another symptoms by now, since he's held my hand on lots of other flights, my fingers and toes turned to ice. My stomach leaps upward into my rib cage. The temperature in the tip of my nose drops to the same level as the temperature in my fingers. My nipples stand up and salute the inside of my bra or in this case dress, since I'm not wearing a bra and for one screaming minute my heart and the engines correspond as we attempt to prove again, that the laws of aerodynamics are not the flimsy superstitions which in my heart of hearts, I know they are never mind the diabolical information to passengers. I happen to be convinced that only my own concentration and that of my mother who always seems to expect her Children to die in a plane crash, Keep this bird aloft. I congratulate myself on every successful takeoff, but not too enthusiastically because it's also part of my personal religion, that the minute you grow overconfident and really relax about the flight. The plane crashes instantly. Constant vigilance. That's my motto