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...still available to any man capable of enough suffering, renunciation and self-conquest. Across time and space the great mystics share their discovery. Dostoevsky and St. Teresa bear witness to identical ecstasies. The visions of many a saint are echoed in these words by the late flyer Saint-Exupéry, who alone above the clouds found himself "enclosed as in the precincts of a temple," where, "by the grace of an ordeal ... which stripped you of all that was not intrinsic, you discovered a mysterious creature born of yourself. . . . Man does not die. . . . What man fears is himself...
Missing in Action. Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, 44, best-selling French aviator-novelist (Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras); on a reconnaissance flight over Europe. Saint Exupery, veteran of over 13,000 flying hours, was grounded last March by a U.S. Army Air Forces officer because of age, was later put back into his plane by a decision of Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, flew some 15 flak-riddled missions in a P-38 before his disappearance...
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...
...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...