ALL:
For those of you who have Antoine de Saint Exupery's 'Wind Sand and Stars ' on your bookshelf may I suggest you take it down and re-read pages 11,12 and 13. They contain a graphic description of St. Ex's feelings towards the non flying workers who travelled on the airport bus with him one bleak Parisian morning. He compares his life as a pilot to theirs and he speaks of how the " clay that formed them has dried and hardened ". He reflects on the fact that within two hours of stepping off that bus he will be confronting " dark dragons" high above the earth. He leaves it for the reader to ponder the dreary life of those men of clay who ride the bus everyday. Written in 1938 but still applicable to today and especially relevant to this discussion.
Prince of Dzun