![]() It's just that there's so much going on beneath the surface – and that this surface is so dazzling that it's sometimes hard to see beyond it. In saying that, I wouldn't want to suggest that Saint-Exupéry is obtuse or confusing. ![]() So many, in fact, that it's only now, at the end of our month of reading, and a couple of weeks since I first reached the remarkable last chapter, that I've really begun to piece together what the book is about and what it means. It may be a slim volume, but it contains worlds. And no one doubted the quality of his writing. ![]() We might have questioned his politics, but we couldn't condemn them. C oming late to the Wind, Sand and Stars this month, TimHannigan wrote: "Within a few lines you know you are flying with a pilot of the highest calibre." I've rarely seen such universal acclaim for an author. ![]()
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