Nearer the surface, gravity compresses the atmosphere hard. Joelle in Chinook guides Williwaw, holothetically linked to its instruments. Gravity is Jovian. The atmosphere tosses and tumbles the boat and fills it with noise. Williwaw passes through monstrous storms of thunder, lightning, gales, rain and hail, then enters a peaceful region of thick warm air between a violet and indigo sky and an aureate ocean of intricately moving clouds. Danaans, royal blue, whale-sized and -shaped, with wings, arms or trunks and hands, rise from the clouds and dance around Williwaw.
Addendum: Rereading Anderson's text, I have had to amend this post slightly.
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