If you love children’s books, you will recognize that this author also penned The Little Prince. Truth is not that which is demonstrable but that which is ineluctable. He founded a human speech which could express at one and the same time the fall of an apple and the rising of the sun. Newton did not”discover” a law that lay hidden from man like the answer to a rebus. Truth is the language that expresses universality. But truth, we know, is that which clarifies, not that which confuses. Nothing is easier than to divide men into rightest and leftists, hunchbacks and straightbacks, fascists and democrats – and these distinctions will be perfectly just. “But if we are to succeed in grasping what is essential in man, we must put aside the passions that divide us and that, once they are accepted, sow in the wind a whole Koran of unassailable verities and fanaticisms. We ponder, we contemplate, we question, and we share. We fear not death.Īnd we explore life from amazing perspectives. We are left to guard a crashed airplane with one gun and few bullets against possible marauding fanatics. We travel the countrysides of France and Spain, into the bombed city of Madrid, over the snow-covered Andes, introduced to the mirages of the Libyan desert.
He takes us into flight we survive being sucked into the seas or hurled into mountain sides. de Saint-Exupery wrote it in French originally, that the translation into English translated so well? (Translation acknowledgement / thank you to Lewis Galantiere) Fascinating, isn’t it? that even though Mr.
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