Word: exup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among Pop's pilots was the French flyer-novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Flight to Arras), a veteran of 13,000 flying hours. The physical strain of stratosphere flying finally proved too much for 44-year-old Saint-Exupéry. He tried gamely to keep on but finally had to give it up. It is a young man's racket...
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, most metaphysical of aviators (Night Flight; Wind, Sand and Stars; Flight to Arras), has written a fairy tale for grownups. The symbolism is delicate and tenuous. It challenges man the adult, and deplores the loss of the child...
...Saint-Exupéry begins by saying that when he was six he drew a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an elephant. Says lie: "I showed my masterpiece to the grownups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them...
...Saint-Exupéry then proceeds to explain numerous other things to grownups. Grounded in the Sahara, he is awakened by a little prince-"a most extraordinary small person," with "an odd little voice." Pipes the prince: "If you please-draw me a sheep!" Saint-Exupéry instinctively complies (his naive little sketches are part of the book) and the little prince's autobiography unfolds...
Restored to love and responsibility, the prince must return to his rose. He proposes to take Saint-Exupéry's sketch of the sheep (which will grow into flesh and bone). But sheep eat bushes-and the little prince demands a sketch of a muzzle...