Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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  1. fatale

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    à la guerre comme à la guerre
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    '...Je ne peux pas emporter ce corps-là. C?est trop lourd.
    Ce n?est pas triste les vieilles écorces...'
     
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    Aaaah, first Letez with his spillage tea, now this... damn :D
     
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    "After the allied liberation of northern France, the author of Night Flight, Southern Mail and other classics was allowed to fly the high-performance Lightning as a gesture to his celebrity."

    Wow, they put someone in a warplane and let them fly a _lone_ reconnaissance mission because of his celebrity status?? Who ever came up with that idea is REALLY the one who should be sorry for having killed that guy.
     
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    a pilot of jewish origin fighting for nazi germany, killing his idol who inspired him to fly
    thats war allright
    makes perfect sense
     
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    globalisaton on the way.

    as for saint-ex, he was forbidden to fly behind enemy lines with almost every trick the command managed to invent. for example he was told about details of operation overlord (though he was not engaged in it in any way) just because the one who knows that secret simply is not allowed fly near front lines.

    actual killers of saint-ex are those who let them fly combat planes. being a "combatant" he had a good opportunity to get shot.

    le petit prince is one of my favorite books, btw.
     
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    Don't read this, it is typical of rude's grouchy crap.

    [okay, (moved it elswhere) with apologies to Fatale]
     
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    as TIMES goe by

    hi NM.,

    this TIMES you gave me a troublesome to solve...
    did you mean, it was a global conspiracy, and all canadian schools had bought so much 'prince's to put saint-exupery into the rank of 'bestseller'?
    where came the 'unnamed sources' into the game?

    anyway, don't tell me, i will find the solution to your riddle, whatever TIMES it take!

    [in school, i was forced to read h.g.wells and f. engels, we had chosen to read s.lem and - luckily - never discussed to read an encyclopedia, whatever nice letters it had on the outside. because some knew 'le petit prince' already, we did 'vol de nuit' instead. btw, saint-exupery's best-selling book was 'terre des hommes', as far as i know.]
     
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    :rose:
     
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    IRONY
    whoever you were
     
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    He was friend of a grandfather of a friend of mine here in my city. There were an airport for the mail and he used to land here. There is a book that they wrote telling some adventures about them two here.
     
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    Horrido Rippert!!!
    :)
     
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    * If you want to build a ship, don't drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

    * Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

    * The machine does not isolate us from the great problems of nature but plunges us more deeply into them.

    * There is no hope of joy except in human relations.

    * True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

    * I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things.

    * You do not inherit the earth of your ancestors, you borrow it from your children.

    - Saint Exupéry

    (shameless copy from Wiki)

    The guy inspired me a few years ago. I don't quite remember if it was from a specific quotation, or some documentation I've seen about him. I just know that my main e-mail address (no, I actually mean the serious one, which I give out to friends / collegues / or even on a professional basis when I'm waiting for a response - my main AOL e-mail is being flooded with shit, so I don't check it) is in fact derived from his name. Funny how you do things in the past and then a few years later don't remember exactly why.
    I've read "Le petit prince" only recently, but not completely. It is so real that I didn't bother to read it to the end, yet. I can just walk down the street and get the same. It is maybe the most truthfull book that has ever been written on man. Hell, you might as well call it the Bible in short form.
     
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