This regular blog feature will return next week (suffice to say that at the moment, there is quite a lot “in-progress”–so much so that I simply can’t prepare a blog post in addition!).
We’ll return to our regular schedule on Friday, with the “Friday Finds” post.
Thanks for your patience and understanding!
Toi si Français, je te sens deux fois en péril de mort, parce que Français, et parce que juif.
(My attempt at a translation: You who are so French, I sense that you are doubly in mortal danger, because you are a Frenchman, and because you are a Jew.)
Source: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Lettre à un otage (“Letter to a Hostage”), first published in 1943. (My copy lists a 1944 copyright.)
There’s more about this text, and Saint-Exupéry’s friendship with Léon Werth, the titular though never-named hostage, in Stacy Schiff’s Saint-Exupéry biography. (Werth is the same friend to whom Saint-Exupéry dedicated Le Petit Prince.) I am currently awaiting the arrival of one of Werth‘s works about the wartime period, 33 Jours.
Monday brings the weekly batch of no-fee competitions/contests, paying submission calls, and jobs for those of us who write (especially those of us who write fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction). (more…)
In which I participate in David Abrams’s “Sunday Sentence” project, sharing the best sentence I’ve read during the past week, “out of context and without commentary.”
A week or so later, sorting through Dad’s desk, I found that Iowa paperweight, holding down papers against a breeze through a window that would otherwise have scattered them.
Source: Sands Hall, “In Things,” a contribution to a 2Paragraphs collection of Father’s Day stories.
Writing-related resources, news, and reflections to enjoy over the weekend. (more…)