The Flight

Below the sea of clouds lies eternity.
Wind, Sand and Stars (1939)
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

They conned across seas of eternity, never catching sight of the ground except at the beginning and end.
The Hunters (1957)
James Salter

The Meals

A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine-glasses.

A Farewell to Arms (1929)

Ernest Hemingway

Life is weather. Life is meals. Lunches on a blue-checked cloth on which salt has spilled. The smell of tobacco. Brie, yellow apples, wood-handled knives.

Light Years (1975)

James Salter