The Little Prince
The Little Prince - But no ! But no ! I do not believe anything! I answered anything. I am busy with serious things! "
He looked at me stunned.
"Serious things! "
He saw me, with my hammer in my hand, and my fingers black with shimmering, bending over an object which seemed very ugly to him.
"You talk like grown-ups!" "
It made me a little ashamed. But, pitiless, he added:
"You confuse everything ... you mix everything! "
He was really very irritated. He shook the gilded hair in the wind:
"I know a planet where there is a crimson gentleman. He never breathed a flower. He never looked at a star. He never loved anyone. He has never done anything other than additions. And all day he repeats like you: "I am a serious man! I am a serious man!" And it makes him swell with pride. But it's not a man, it's a mushroom!
- A what ?
- A fungus ! "
The little prince was now pale with anger.