Everybody knows this. When it’s noon in the United States, the sun is going down in France.
If you could fly to France in one minute, you could watch the sunset.
But on the little prince’s planet, you only needed to pull your chair a few steps.
And you could watch the sun going down whenever you wished.
“One day I saw the sunset forty-three times,” said the little prince and he added, “When you are very sad, sunsets are wonderful.”
“On the day of the forty-three sunsets, did you feel very sad?” I asked. But the little prince didn’t answer.
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On the fifth day, again thanks to the sheep, another secret of the little prince’s life was shown to me.
He asked me, “If a sheep eats little bushes, does it eat flowers, too?”
“A sheep eats whatever it finds,” I answered. “Even flowers that have thorns?”
“Yes. Even flowers that have thorns.” “I don’t understand it. Why does the flower have thorns if a sheep can eat it?”
I didn’t know. At that moment I was very busy. I needed to repair my engine.
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