Prologue
Here is a hat, which looks like a boa which has swallowed an elephant.
Or a boa, who looks like a hat.
No, no, a hat
... which looks like a boa who has swallowed an elephant.
When I was six years old
me and the grown-ups were always quarreling like that.
I was for the boa
and they for the hat.
But it was me, who has drawn boa which has swallowed an elephant.
If you please--draw me a lamb!
No! The boa is very dangerous and the elephant is too big.
Draw me a lamb!
1.
Little Prince and the Pilot
My little friend, where do you come from?
Where is your home and where do you go?
Where do you want to take your lamb?
Where do you take him without a muzzle?
You had a naïve and weak flower which had only four thorns.
It was very good I gave you that box for your lamb.
I will give you also a rope; tide up that he does not escape far from you.
Nothing will be changed in the world, if some lamb eats some rose,
having only four thorns.
At that time the stars, alas, will be turned into tears.
Forgive me, forgive me, that I can not see a lamb in a closed box.
Guce yes el mi qich nman em metserin.
My little friend, where do you come from?
2.
Little Prince and the Snake
“Good morning, small ring! What planet is this on which I have come down?”
“This is the Earth.”
“Then there are no people on the Earth?”
"This is the desert.”
“It is a little lonely in the desert.”
“It is also lonely among men, remember.”
“You are strange. You are no thicker than a finger. You have not even any feet. You cannot even travel.”
“I can carry you farther than any ship could take you.”
“You speak in riddles.”
“I solve them all.”
The Jabberwocky
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
“But this is not the performance you mean.”
“You don't say so!”
3.
First Song of Odyssey
Tell me, Muse, of the man of many ways,
Who was driven far journeys,
After he had sacked Troy 's sacred citadel.
Many were they whose cities he saw,
Whose minds he learned of,
Many the pains he suffered in his spirit on the wide sea...
4.
Little Prince, Alice and Roses
“Good morning, sun!”
“Who are you?”
"We are roses.”
“Can you speak?”
“We can, we just do not know with whom to speak.”
“I did not know that there are other roses in the world except of my rose. Hundreds, thousands of roses.”
“He is not smart, but his color is good, which is a lot...”
“There are rose expect of my rose.”
“But you are not cowards, although probably no one takes care of you.”
“I will take care of my sick rose that he never dies.”
“There is a tree with long boughs.”
“I will pick you if you do not shut up.”
“The soil is harsh here. That's why the flowers yell. In a soft soil they sing.”
5.
Little Prince and the King
“Ah! Here is a subject.”
“The army!”
“Let he stand up and do not yawn!”
“Stand up, subject and do not yawn!
Or just the opposite, I order you to yawn quickly!”
“Even those stars obey you.”
“I do not permit insubordination.”
“You do not permit insubordination.”
“I should like to see a sunset. Let the sun to set by my request.”
“If I ordered a general to change himself into a white sea bird…”
“Those who do not obey to their king, they will be guilty. I order to be obedient as my demands are smart and even the sun is obedient to me.”
“Yes, you can not see a sunset when you wish.”
“Better you stay with us. I will make you a Minister!"
“You want I be obedient? Permit me to leave this planet.”
“Ok, you will be my Ambassador!”
The Jabberwocky
"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"
6.
Little Prince and the Conceited Man
“Oh, admirer, oh, good morning!
I will bow you, welcome me.
But unfortunately, nobody ever comes here.
Come on, clap your hands, clap your hands!
Oh, admirer, admire me, accept that here, on this planet I am the most glamorous, the richest, the smartest, the most educated and of course, the handsomest. And admire me!”
“The grown-ups are very strange!”
“Too much!”
7.
The Song of Alice
Alice came to the miraculous world of mirrors and said:
“I have a sceptre on my hands and a crown on my head.
The inhabitants of the mirror wherever they be
let they dance with the black and red queens,
fill the bowls quickly with wine, pull on the table, pull full up grains, buttons and seeds,
put the mice and the cat in the coffee cup.”
“And give 90 welcomes to Alice, queen Alice .”
“It is a big honor to see me or be my guest here!”
8.
Little Prince and the Businessman
“Three and two. Five and seven make twelve. Twelve and seven and finally, twenty-two. Only five hundred million six hundred thousand seven hundred thirty-eight…”
“Million six hundred thirty-eight what?"
“Tree, flower, leaf or what?”
“Tree! Flower! Leaf! What?”
"Bees?"
"No!”
“No, no! Little golden objects that set lazy men to idle dreaming.”
“Whom the stars belong? To nobody! Thus, they are mine! I own those million of stars for being rich and buy new stars and count, count, count…”
“It is weird and rather poetic. But it is not so serious. I myself own a rose, I water my rose in the morning. But there is no use to own the stars.”
The Jabberwocky
He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought—
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.
9.
Little Prince and the Fox
“Seek me under the apple tree. I am right here, I am a fox."
If you tame me, I will distinguish your steps from the steps of the others.
I am running from every step, but your steps will call me.
To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
Seek me under the apple tree.”
10.
The Song of Felicities
Good morning.
We are here, we live at your home.
Me, your servant and a happiness, a peace.
The felicity to love parents.
The felicity of clean air, of forest.
The small felicity of rain.
The kind felicity of sun's hour.
The felicity of running barefoot in the dewdrop.
11.
The Lighter
“He lighted!”
“He put out his lamp!”
“He lighted and put out his lamp!”
“He lighted!” “He put out his lamp!” “He lighted!” “He put out his lamp!”
“Why you lighted your lamp?"
"Those are the orders!”
“Why you put out your lamp again?”
"Those are the orders!”
"What are the orders?"
"The orders are that I light and put out my lamp.”
“He lighted!” “He put out his lamp!”
“Pity your planet is too small. There is no room on it for two people around this lamp.”
“He lighted!” “He put out his lamp!” “He lighted!”
12.
The Light
The light, the light, the light!
Every day, both yesterday and today
We are waiting for you.
We are the joy of understanding, of being true, of seeing the beauty.
We are happy, but we do not see across us.
Do not hide from us the truth and all the joys.
13.
Gulliver, Odyssey and Little Prince
Usually what is the reason when a country goes to war with another? They were innumerable. Sometimes the ambition of princes, who never think they have land or people enough to govern. Sometimes the corruption of ministers, who engage their master in a war in order to stifle or divert the clamor of the subjects against their evil administration.
“I am a miserable yahoo exiled from the country of the Houyhnhnms . I am a yahoo!”
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be b read , or bread be flesh ; whether the juice of a certain berry be blood or wine ; whether whistling be vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post , or throw it into the fire; what is the best color for a coat, whether black, white, red, or gray . Neither are any wars so furious and bloody, or of so long continuance, as those occasioned by difference in opinion, especially if it be in things indifferent.
“And regardless of my convictions I agreed to tell you my story.”
If a prince sends forces into a nation where the people are poor and ignorant, he may lawfully put half of them to death, and make slaves of the rest, in order to civilize them.
Poor nations are hungry , and rich nations are proud ; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
The trade of a s oldier is held the most honorable of all others: because a soldier is a yahoo hired to kill as many of his own species .
Culverins, muskets, carabines, pistols, bullets, powder, swords, bayonets, retreats, attacks, undermines, bombardments. And beheld the dead Bodies come down in pieces from the clouds, to the great diversion of the spectators.
Sailing thence
they were overtaken by a storm
which drove them for nine days
till they reached the country of the lotus-eaters.
They eat only flowers.
“A rose is being grown in my planet!”
“And although I am a yahoo,
I overcame with big efforts
my hellish habits of swindling, cheating and surely, playing the hypocrite.”
“But whoever eats the lotus does not want to return and give some news to his friends. And although they were crying, I brought them back to the ships by force and tied them up.”
“My flower also will disappear soon. No one take care of him, but I quitted him.”
14.
The Song of Dwarf, Written Down by Alice
“In winter, when the fields are white I always sing this song under the sky.
In spring, when the forest becomes green, I will try to tell you what I am singing about.
In summer, when the days get long, perhaps you will understand my song.
In autumn when the leaves are yellow, take a pen and write down my song.
In winter, when the fields are white I always sing this song under the sky.”
15.
The Second Song of Odyssey
Hear me, eminent nobles of Phaeacians,
Let the singer stop singing and playing his lyre.
That song, alas, did not make glad the soul of our foreign guest.
His weep did not stop without a pause.
The visions got excited and old pains have been repaired in his soul.
16.
The Last Song of Little Prince
When you look at the sky at night, you will think all the stars are laughing.
It will seem to you that instead of the stars I have given you thousand of bells.
The stars will be old wells,
The stars will feel drinking water for me.
You will have five hundred million little bells,
I will have five hundred million sources.
When you look at the sky at night...
Here is a hat,
which looks like a boa who has swallowed an elephant.
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