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...Saigon, who could crash in the Sahara and survive, rescued by Bedouins. He was also the acclaimed author of such international best sellers as the novel Night Flight (1931) and the children's tale The Little Prince (1943). As if these achievements did not generate sufficient glamour, Antoine de Saint- Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over his native France. On July 31, 1944, he took off from an Allied base in Corsica and never returned. He may have been forced down in the Mediterranean...
Wartime Writings should add more luster to the Saint-Exupery legend, though the author might think otherwise. He was a perfectionist, accustomed to going through 25 or 30 drafts of his prose before submitting it for publication. He used language with extreme care and respect, all the while doubting its ability to communicate essential truths: "I've always thought that words were like love among tortoises -- something not well attuned as yet." This collection of letters and miscellaneous pieces would certainly strike Saint- Exupery as unpolished and riddled with contradictions and inconsistencies. It is all of that and something more...
Like millions of others during those dreadful years, Saint-Exupery had ample reason for anguish. His dream of defending his country from Nazi invaders was interrupted by the fall of France in 1940. The collaborationist Vichy government, hoping to appropriate some of his fame and prestige, named the writer-pilot to a post on its National Council. He scornfully refused from a self-imposed exile in the U.S., where he continued to write books and advocate American intervention...
...greatest designers of this century were Americans--Claire McCardell and Charles James--but, truth be told, there is not a designer on the American scene now who can match Armani's bold finesse, never mind the inventiveness of Issey Miyake, the deluxe grace of Yves Saint Laurent or Karl Lagerfeld, the Zen funkiness of Yohji Yamamoto. The best American design tends to be generic, not designer labeled. It would be hard to find, for instance, a designer who has been influenced by Louis Dell'Olio, but it would be equally impossible to find an Italian leather blouson that...
...sense, paradise is precisely what's lost. Nothing is more incorruptible than what is irretrievable. And just as a good man, once dead, becomes a saint, so a nice place, once quit, becomes an Eden. As the years slide by, the places we have visited are steadily pushed back to an enchanted distance, and memory, the mind's great cosmetician, begins to remove wrinkles, soften edges, touch up the past in a golden glow. The 26-hour bus trip, the simultaneous swarm of hucksters and mosquitoes, the revolutions of the stomach are all forgotten or, better yet, transfigured into...