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A Comparative Analysis of Two Alternatives to Chemical Aircraft Paint Stripping

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Can anything more be said about this by now cannonised book that hasn't yet been said? George P. Joyce is simply a legend in technical report writing. He doesn't concede to the form of his medium and write lifeless mechanical descriptions of alternatives to chemical aircraft paint stripping, but baptises the lives of the chemical aircraft painter strippers in the hot quicksilver of his magnificent prose, reifying these "paint strippers", restoring their humanity. Joyce is an alchemist, taking the leaden medium of technical report writing, and transmuting it with his warm spirit, pouring his pen over the obscured voices of the chemical aircraft paint strippers like a mellifluous caramel gold; redeeming them in a universal chorus of aircraft paint strippers, their individual spirits vibrating like strings in a cosmic harp.

The men and women who perform the Plastic Media Blasting or the Modified Medium Pressure Water are not just pale vapours forever condemned to history as nameless peon ghouls. No. Their lives are celebrations and their performances are a pure ablution upon the incurable leperous spawn of insdustrialism - the C-l30 aircraft (by the PMB process at the Lockheed Aircraft Service Center in Ontario, CA, and the MPW process by Warner- Robins AFB, GA.) Moreoever, Joyce's invocations of both these locales are startingly rich despite the brevity of language. His impressionistic craftsmanship is on full display here. A masterpiece in modern technical report writing.

Thank you for your humanity George P. Joyce.