J’ai ainsi eu, au cours de ma vie, des tas de contacts avec des tas de gens sérieux. J’ai beaucoup vécu chez les grandes personnes. Je les ai vues de très près. Ça n’a pas trop amélioré mon opinion.

Quand j’en rencontrais une qui me paraissait un peu lucide, je faisais l’expérience sur elle de mon dessin n°1 que j’ai toujours conservé. Je voulais ( Read more... )

It's almost evening when Antoine leads Sam through to the Sahara.

The sky is bronze, clouds simply light streaks on the sky and, on occasion, almost indistinguishable.

(Sand moves across sand as a breeze sweeps cross the desert, and Antoine is almost immediately at ease. He is at home in the desert. He is more comfortable here than in Paris, more ( Read more... )

The sun beats down as ever, and the Sahara - the Sahara is beautiful. (It is easy to imagine, though, dying here, walking for miles with no hope of rescue. It's an oddly warming thought.) The sand stretches as far as the eye can see, wind curving into dunes that might have been painted. The sky is just so cloudy today, the two of them - the tall, ( Read more... )

( quatre )

 ( trois )

Continuity: Mixed_Muses
Characters: Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Tiwa

( the colour of the sky )

( deux )

Continuity: Mixed_Muses
Characters: Antoine de Saint Exupéry, Tiwa

( little bird )

( a prickly rose who loved a starry prince )

( I left the United States in 1943... )