Flight To Arras

FLIGHT TO ARRAS

Michael Blackburn

1 dreaming cards crews motorcar machines war guns risks victory wife god

2 nose disapproval conversation vision tic day feet

3 intelligence mask relays anti-aircraft gunner

4 identity child overall sleep trade altitude

5 body sortie importance village ashes

6 miles ecstasy rudder stake

7 hospital flames sensation

8 hours hand celebration rubber bullets cirrus sheet ersatz

9 outskirts fireplace comrades

10 rotation absurdities safeguard flaw repair

11 advance agent words enemy sabre bondsmen

12 rhetoric floor children campfires breath roads slime

13 zone divisions treasure junkshop petrol roadmender vermin exodus doctor equilibrium land button reality

14 thirst mob woman sewer

15 gun subterfuge lorry boundaries flames

16 epithet fortnight honour

17 stick weather plain root twilight hecatomb castle

18 protection purpose air needles

19 smoke roar solidarity moralist morning explosion team gas pilot elixir fire

20 affection record outsider world faith tree parachute companions

21 shepherd landmark rectangle toil feeling

22 edge spirit afternoon future cedar genius people desert flavour

23 treason community ship merchants snow liberty reflection charity brutishness arithmetic farm mankind ideal fraternity stones cathedral wheat mediocrity

24 lamplight nursemaids seed

Source: Flight to Arras (Pilote de Guerre) Antoine de Saint-Exupery trans. Lewis Galantiere Right Book Club London 1943