The Little Prince (4)

The Little Prince (4)

  Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clearsighted, I tried the experimen of showing him my Dwawing Number One, which I have always kept.

  I would try to find out, so, if this was a person of true understanding.

  But whoever it was, he, or she, would always say:
  " That is a hat. "

  Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests, or stars.
  I would bring myself down to his level. I would talk to him about bridge, and golf, and politics, and neckties.

  And the grown-ups would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.  



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　　So I lived my life alone, without anyone that I could really talk to, until I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara, six years ago.


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