The Antoine De Saint-Exupery Collection by Antoine de Saint-exupery
Author:Antoine de Saint-exupery [Saint-exupery, Antoine de]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780739478561
Amazon: 0739478567
Publisher: Quality Paperback
Published: 2007-10-17T10:00:00+00:00
"Certainly. When you find a diamond that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you discover an island that belongs to nobody, it is yours. When you get an idea before any one else, you take out a patent on it: it is yours. So with me: I own the stars, because nobody else before me ever thought of owning them."
"Yes, that is true," said the little prince. "And what do you do with them?"
"I administer them," replied the businessman. "I count them and recount them. It i s d i f f i c u l t . B u t I a m a m a n w h o i s n a t u r a l l y i n t e r e s t e d i n m a t t e r s o f consequence."
The little prince was still not satisfied.
"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."
On matters of consequence, the little prince had ideas which were very different from those of the grown−ups.
"I myself own a flower," he continued his conversation with the businessman,
"which I water every day. I own three volcanoes, which I clean out every week (for I also clean out the one that is extinct; one never knows). It is of some use to my volcanoes, and it is of some use to my flower, that I own them. But you are of no use to the stars..."
The businessman opened his mouth, but he found nothing to say in answer. And the little prince went away.
"The grown−ups are certainly altogether extraordinary," he said simply, talking to himself as he continued on his journey.
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