"We'd picked up a little galvanic halo ourselves by the time we got here," said Chick, "what with the speed and all."
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When trading "sky-stories" with other aeronauts, you're always trying to compete with who faced the worst conditions and had the most adventurous time. Chick has only been an aeronaut for two weeks so he's really got to up his story game. This whole "Oh yeah, we had a little bit of what you just described as well" isn't going to "cut the mustard," as they've recently become fond of saying in the early 1890s. See? I can do it too, Pynchon!
"a little galvanic halo"
Okay, I guess the electric fluid was lightning. Or space electricity. Or static what-not. That seemed pretty apparent which is why I suggested it so matter-of-factly after my bombastic supposition about aether. Chick's "galvanic halo" sounds like some of that static what-not being that he's suggesting they gathered up some currents based on their speed, meaning they were producing a mighty amount of friction against the clouds and the aether and the what-not and all.
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