FLIGHT TO

ARRAS

Michael Blackburn
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dreaming
cards
crews
motorcar
machines
war
guns
risks
victory
wife
god
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nose
disapproval
conversation
vision
tic
day
feet
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intelligence
mask
relays
anti-aircraft
gunner
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identity
child
overall
sleep
trade
altitude
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body
sortie
importance
village
ashes
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miles
ecstasy
rudder
stake
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hospital
flames
sensation
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hours
hand
celebration
rubber
bullets
cirrus
sheet
ersatz
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outskirts
fireplace
comrades
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rotation
absurdities
safeguard
flaw
repair
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advance
agent
words
enemy
sabre
bondsmen
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rhetoric
floor
children
campfires
breath
roads
slime
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zone
divisions
treasure
junkshop
petrol
roadmender
vermin
exodus
doctor
equilibrium
land
button
reality
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thirst
mob
woman
sewer
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gun
subterfuge
lorry
boundaries
flames
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epithet
fortnight
honour
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stick
weather
plain
root
twilight
hecatomb
castle
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protection
purpose
air
needles
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smoke
roar
solidarity
moralist
morning
explosion
team
gas
pilot
elixir
fire
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affection
record
outsider
world
faith
tree
parachute
companions
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shepherd
landmark
rectangle
toil
feeling
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edge
spirit
afternoon
future
cedar
genius
people
desert
flavour
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treason
community
ship
merchants
snow
liberty
reflection
charity
brutishness
arithmetic
farm
mankind
ideal
fraternity
stones
cathedral
wheat
mediocrity
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lamplight
nursemaids
seed
 Source: Flight to Arras
(Pilote de Guerre)
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
trans. Lewis Galantiere
Right Book Club
London
1943