The Little Prince (2)

The Little Prince (2)

  I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

  But they answered : " Frighten ?  Why should anyone be frightened by a hat ? "

  My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant.

 But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained.

  My drawing Number Two looked like this :



  This time, The grown-ups ' response was to advise me to lay aside my drawing of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammer.

  That is why , at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter.

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