The Little Prince
The Little Prince - Of course. When you find a diamond that belongs to no one, it is yours. When you find an island that belongs to no one, it is yours. When you have an idea first, you patent it: it is yours. And I possess the stars, since no one before me thought of possessing them.
"That is true," said the little prince. And what do you do with it?
- I deal with them. I count them and recount them, says the businessman. It's difficult. But I'm a serious man! "
The little prince was not satisfied yet.
"If I have a scarf, I can put it around my neck and take it away." I, if I possess a flower, can pluck my flower and carry it away. But you can not pick the stars!
"No, but I can put them in a bank."
- What does it mean ?
"That means I write on a little paper the number of my stars. And then I lock this paper in a drawer.
- And that's all ?
- That's enough ! "
"It's amusing," thought the little prince. It's pretty poetic. But it is not very serious. "
The little prince had very different ideas about the serious things of the ideas of the grown-up.