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"If you please-- draw me a sheep..."
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"If you please-- draw me a sheep..."

When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey. Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen. But then I remembered how my studies had been concentrated on geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar, and I told the little chap (a little crossly, too) that I did not know how to draw. He answered me:

"That doesn't matter. Draw me a sheep..."

But I had never drawn a sheep. So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often. It was that of the boa constrictor from the outside. And I was astounded to hear the little fellow greet it with,

"No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a boa constrictor. A boa constrictor is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very cumbersome. Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep."

So then I made a drawing.





He looked at it carefully, then he said:

"No. This sheep is already very sickly. Make me another."

So I made another drawing.





My friend smiled gently and indulgenty.

"You see yourself," he said, "that this is not a sheep. This is a ram. It has horns."

So then I did my drawing over once more.





But it was rejected too, just like the others.

"This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time."

By this time my patience was exhausted, because I was in a hurry to start taking my engine apart. So I tossed off this drawing.





And I threw out an explanation with it.

"This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside."

I was very surprised to see a light break over the face of my young judge:

"That is exactly the way I wanted it! Do you think that this sheep will have to have a great deal of grass?"

"Why?"

"Because where I live everything is very small..."

"There will surely be enough grass for him," I said. "It is a very small sheep that I have given you."

He bent his head over the drawing:

"Not so small that-- Look! He has gone to sleep..."

And that is how I made the acquaintance of the little prince.

-The Little Prince


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Re: "If you please-- draw me a sheep..." [Re: mntlfngrs]
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That which is essential is invisible to the eye.


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Remember, it's only true if it makes you laugh...

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Re: "If you please-- draw me a sheep..." [Re: mntlfngrs]
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The Little Prince. My dad would read that to me when I was little. All I remember was that it was very weird, and I wanted to be interested but it was too slow for my kid brain to stick with. All I remember was that he lived on a planet that was so small he could just walk a few seconds and watch the sunset all over again.

And I saw a version of it on t.v. and this scary guy was screaming "MY BEAUTIFUL ARPEGGIO!" and I was sorta freaked out.

I have to get that book.


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Re: "If you please-- draw me a sheep..." [Re: RedNucleus]
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I've only seen this part of it. I bet the whole thing is interesting.


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