The classes changed, with years, from wide soaring poems in flight to hushed talk about Jonathan before and after practice; to long involved recitati… - Richard Bach

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The classes changed, with years, from wide soaring poems in flight to hushed talk about Jonathan before and after practice; to long involved recitations on the sand about the Divine One, with no flying ever done by anybody. Fletcher and the other students of Jonathan were at turns puzzled and correctful and firm and furious at the change, but they were helpless to stop it. They were honored, and worse — revered, but they were no longer heard, and the birds who practiced flying were fewer and fewer.