Il Piccolo Principe (di Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

I miei disegni numero 1 e numero 2


A distant time, when I was six years, in a book on forests primeval, entitled "Stories lived nature," I saw a magnificent design.
Represented a boa snake in the act of swallowing an animal.
Here is a copy of the drawing.
There was written: "The buoy swallow their prey whole, without chewing.
After that no longer able 'to move and sleep during the six months that the digestion requires. "
I thought long on the adventures of the jungle.
And my turn I was able to draw my first drawing.
My drawing number one. It was so ':
I showed my masterpiece with great people, wondering if the design frightened them.
But I answered: "I scared? Why 'ever, one should be frightened by a hat? ".
My plan was not the design of a hat.
It was the design of a buoy that ate an elephant.
For 'see clearly that what, disegnai the inside of the buoy.
We must always explained things, for all ages.
My Drawing Number two was so ':

This time I said to leave by the buoy, both outside and inside, and studying instead to geography, history, all'arithmetic and grammar.
It was so 'that six years I faeces unless to what could have been my glorious career as a painter.
The failure of my drawing and a number of my design number two I had disarmed.
The large do not understand anything for themselves and children get tired to explain everything all the time.
So I chose another profession and learned to fly airplanes.
I have flown a little 'above all over the world and truly geography and I' been very useful.
A glance can distinguish China dall'Arizona, and if one is lost in the night, this wisdom and 'a great help.
I met many important people in my life I have lived long in the midst of major.
I have known intimately, I observed them from their neighbour.
But the view I had of them is not 'much improved.
When they met one that seemed to mind open, tried the experiment of my drawing number one, which I always kept.
I wanted to understand so 'if a person was truly comprehensive.
But anyone, man or woman, I replied: "It 'a hat."
So I did not speak to buoy, primitive forests, of stars.
I lower to his level. The spoke of bridge, golf, politics, ties.
And he was entirely happy to have met a man so sensitive.