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Hans Otto Storm (1895-1941) http://tinyurl.com/HStorm

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Someone Naked

From Count Ten, 1940.

Reader: Kevin Hearle

Anyone who's looked out the window of an airplane has marvelled at the bird's eye perspective, even if it seems, well, just a little bit absurd.

In Count Ten, novelist Hans Otto Storm gives readers the California coast through the eyes of a boy sharing an aerial afternoon with his pilot father.

You could look through the prop and see ahead through an artificial haze that changed shade a little at the edges and became the natural haze before the distant California mountains. . . . The dry hills looked like dry hills and that was sensible. Some buzzards where wheeling about over them; they looked like buzzards, small and black and very much set off against the brown hills. The buzzards were high, but he and his father in the plane were higher still. The brown hills broke off in an innocent-appearing line that he knew was a two hundred foot cliff--then black beach, white waves blurred and stationiary, the flat pale-blue sea and again haze, and nothing. And when your eyes got to nothing you suddenly noticed the end of the wing, alone out there and just being there and not doing anything, and you changed the focus of your eyes and looked at it, surprised and shocked and for an instant for some reason a little embarrassed, as if you had unexpectedly seen someone naked.

Hans Otto Storm was an electrical engineer as well as a novelist. Count Ten appeared in 1940.