{"id":612,"date":"2004-04-08T12:43:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-08T16:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=612"},"modified":"2015-11-14T08:44:19","modified_gmt":"2015-11-14T13:44:19","slug":"st-exuperys-plane-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=612","title":{"rendered":"St.-Exupery\u2019s Plane Discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow.<\/a><\/p>\n

Antoine St.-Exupery’s plane disappeared on July 31, 1944 – and nobody knew what had happened – until now. He vanished off the face of the earth, leaving not a trace of himself behind. (They still don’t know why, exactly, his plane went down – but at the time, it was as though the author of Le Petit Prince<\/i> had flown off through our outer atmosphere, and into the galaxy – not too difficult to imagine, considering the interests of the author. The melancholy and yearning of the author – encapsulated in his little book Le Petit Prince<\/i>.)<\/p>\n

The strange thing for me (and for others) about his disappearance was its correspondence to what happened to The Little Prince in the book.<\/p>\n

The Prince appears, randomly, from outer space, from his teeny little planet which he shares with one rose. He appears in the middle of the Sahara Desert and befriends a pilot, sitting beside his plane in the desert. And then – after a relationship develops, the Prince disappeared again – after being bitten by a serpent. Obviously allegorical. But heart-wrenching and simply told. It is not idealogical, or brow-beatingly obvious. It’s a fairy tale.<\/p>\n

The last line of the book – (I first read it in the original French in high school, and am so grateful that I did – it’s meant to be read in French):<\/p>\n

“Ne me laissez pas tellement triste: \u00e9crivez-moi vite qu’il est revenu… ”<\/p>\n

“If this should happen, please comfort me. Send me word that he has come back.”<\/i><\/p>\n

Send me word that he has come back.<\/p>\n

St.-Exupery’s missing plane has been found, missing for all of these years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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