‘Matters of Consequence’
- by Pixel
*suspiro*
Moofruot, you’ve done me in. I’ve never read anything deeper or more insightful…
“If I owned a silk scarf,” he said, “I could put it around my neck and take it away with me. If I owned a flower, I could pluck that flower and take it away with me. But you cannot pluck the stars from heaven . . .”
“No. But I can put them in the bank.”
“Whatever does that mean?”
“That means that I write the number of my stars on a little paper. And then I put this paper in a drawer and lock it with a key.”
“And that is all?”
“That is enough,” said the businessman.
“It is entertaining,” thought the little prince. “It is rather poetic. But it is of no great consequence.”
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*suspiro* Moofruot, you’ve done me in. I’ve never read anything deeper or more insightful… “A sheep–if it eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?” “A sheep,” I answered, “eats anything it finds in its reach.” “Even flowers that have thorns?” “Yes, even flowers that have thorns.” “Then the thorns–what use are they?” I did…
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Yessss. Another idealist… I am not alone… 🙂
I’m telling you, the world would be a much better place if everybody read The Little Prince. I will stand by that statement to the death.