Aditi Sriram is a writer in NYC. This is an excerpt of a longer research project on the imagery and significance of hands in Saint-Exupéry’s body of work, including sources never before translated from the original French, provided by the generous Howard Scherry, president and founder of Remembering Saint-Exupéry. Also forthcoming, a conversation with Mignonne Lachappelle, a fictional lover of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, animated and choreographed by author Ania Szado in her second novelStudio Saint-Ex.