On Explore: July 2010
'My life is very monotonous. I run after the chickens; the men run
after me. All the chickens are the same, and all the men are the same.
Consequently, I get a little bored. but if you tame me, my days will
be as if filled with sunlight. I shall know a sound of footstep
different from all the rest. Other steps make me run to earth. Yours
will call me out of my foxhole like music. And besides, look over
there! You see the fields of corn ? Well, I don't eat bread. Corn is
of no use for me. Corn fields remind me of nothing. Which is sad! On
the other hand, your hair is the colour of gold. So think how
wonderful it will be when you have tamed me. The corn, which is
golden, will remind me you. And I shall come to love the sound of the
wind in the field of corn...."
The fox fell silent and looked steadily at the little prince for a
long time.
'Please,' he said, 'tame me!' 'I should like to,' replied the little
prince, 'but I don't have much time. I have friends to discover and
many things to understand.'
'One only ever understands what one tames. People no longer have the
time to understand anything. They buy everything ready-made from the
shops. but there is no shop where friends can be bought, so people no
longer have friends. If you want a friend, tame me!'
"'You have to be very patient,' replied the fox. 'First, you will
sit down a short distance away from me, like that, in the grass. I
shall watch you out of the corner of my eye and you will say nothing;
words are the source of misunderstandings. But each day you may sit a
little closer to me.'
The next day the little prince came back. 'It would have been better
to come back at the same time of the day,'said the fox. 'For instance,
if you come at four in the afternoon, when three o'clock strikes I
shall begin to feel happy. The closer our time approaches, the happier
I shall feel. By four o'clock I shall already be getting agitated and
worried; I shall be discovering that happiness has its price! But if
you show up at any old time, I'll never know when to start dressing my
hearth for you... We all need rituals.' 'What is a ritual?' said the
little prince. 'Something else that is frequently neglected,' said the
fox.
It's what makes one day different from the other days, one hour
different from the other hours. There is a ritual, for example, among
my huntsmen. On Thursdays they dance with the village girls. So
Thursday is a wonderful day for me! I can take a stroll as far as the
vineyard. If the huntsmen went dancing at any old time, the days would
all be the same, and I should never have a holiday.' So the little
prince tamed the fox. And when the time for him to leave was
approaching: 'Oh!' said the fox. 'I am going to cry,'
'It's your own fault,' said the little prince. 'I never wished you any
harm; but you wanted me to tame you...' 'I know,' said the fox. 'And
now you are going to cry!' said the little prince. 'I know,' said the
fox. 'So you have gained nothing from it at all!'
'Yes, I have gained something,' said the fox, 'because of the colour
of the corn.'
from: "The Little Prince" by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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elio de stefani. 35 months ago | reply
eccellente!! questa macchia di rosso,in un contesto un po piatto ed uniforme.
Michael Angelo 77 35 months ago | reply
Beautiful!
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Maureclaire 35 months ago | reply
You made my day too with this gorgeous capture!!
NetAgra 35 months ago | reply
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RLuna 35 months ago | reply
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DenesG1-still off, computerproblems 35 months ago | reply
Nicely composed, beautiful work!
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b.four 35 months ago | reply
Beautiful shot !
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oriana.italy 35 months ago | reply
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pim van den heuvel 34 months ago | reply
I like the red flower there. Reminds me of this one.
Ana Encinas. 30 months ago | reply
And this one! :)
Majtek862 26 months ago | reply
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Taron Curtis 26 months ago | reply
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Fede la lince 23 months ago | reply
hai trovato uno scritto di grande bellezza per rendere al meglio questo campo di grano, le lunghe spighe chinate e il rosso papavero che con coraggio solleva il capo...Grazie dei tuoi piacevoli commenti!
lmiguel37 23 months ago | reply
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Artie..1 21 months ago | reply
Nicely captured!