AtD translation: in a great heavenwide twinkling they came / Jesus-rapt ascensionary

[Monte Davis]

I connect the twinkling to the aeronauts' arrival  "long after sundown":
they are high enough to catch sunlight coming from, below the terrestrial
watcher's horizon, so are as bright as stars against a darkening sky.

 Ascensionary <--> skeptic = the range of context and expectation, from
millennial/transcendent to "merely" technological, that people brought to
early flight.  Compare the range vis-a-vis IT today...

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On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> P14.13-25   Since that morning, before the first light, a gay,
> picnic-going throng of aeromaniacs of one sort and another had been
> continuing all day now to volà-voile in, till long after sundown, through
> the midwestern summer evening whose fading light they were most of them too
> busy quite to catch the melancholy of, their wings both stationary and
> a-flap, gull and albatross and bat-styled wings, wings of gold-beaters’
> skin and bamboo, wings laboriously detailed with celluloid feathers, in a
> great heavenwide twinkling they came, bearing all degrees of aviator from
> laboratory skeptic to Jesus-rapt ascensionary, accompanied often by
> sky-dogs, who had learned how to sit still, crowded next to them in the
> steering-cabins of their small airships, observing the instrument panels
> and barking if they noticed something the pilot had failed to—though others
> could be observed at gunwales and flying bridges, their heads thrust out
> into the passing airflow, looks of bliss on their faces.
>
> What does "in a great heavenwide twinkling" mean here? And what is a
> "Jesus-rapt ascensionary"?
>
>
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