World Leaders
World Leaders is an unpublished short story by the British writer Roald Dahl (1916–1990), which was written around 1948.
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In the short story World Leaders , God sends the dead pilot Zail back to earth to attend a congress with presidents and prime ministers to remind them of their ultimate insignificance. The pilot is arrested and taken to the leaders of the world.
“It was then that they saw his eyes. When they looked at him, it was impossible for them to see anything but his eyes. They were deep blue - the color of the sky in summer. Behind each eye was a great flame that burned steadily and with great brightness, for it was the eyes of a thousand men who had been killed in the air. The courage, the truthfulness and the suffering of each of these men as well as their strength was reflected in his eyes ... They saw in these eyes a strength that was so great that it was beyond their understanding. While they were looking there was a bright glow around the place where Zail was standing, and his face was like the face of an angel. "
Zail eventually takes the world's leaders on a flight in a supernatural plane made entirely of glass. The plane doesn't make any noise. They fly higher and higher and the world below them becomes smaller and smaller until their tiny size becomes apparent in space.
See also
literature
- Donald Sturrock: Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl, London 2016