(H/B) THE LITTLE PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES

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Once when I was six years old I saw a beautiful picture in a book called "True Stories" about the primeval forest. It showed a boa constrictor swallowing an animal. [...]
The book stated: 'Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole without chewing it, whereupon they can no longer move and sleep for six months digesting it.'
I then reflected deeply upon the adventures in the jungle and in turn succeeded in making my first drawing with a colour pencil. [...]
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups and asked them if my drawing frightened them.
They answered: 'Why should anyone be frightened by a hat?' My drawing did not represent a hat. It was supposed to be a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. So I made another drawing of the inside of the boa constrictor to enable the grown-ups to understand. They always need explanations. [...]
The grown-ups then advised me to give up my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and to devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. Thus it was that I gave up a magnificent career as a painter at the age of six. I had been disappointed by the lack of success of both my drawings [...]. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves and it is rather tedious for children to have to explain things to them time and again. [...] (From the publisher)

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