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Magic that Love Can Do
Entry Feed TrackbackHave you read the book “The Little Prince” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry? Oh I love that book! Here’s an excerpt, which talks to me about the magic that love can do.
“Nothing’s perfect,” sighed the fox. “My life is monotonous. I hunt chickens; people hunt me. All chickens are just alike, and all men are just alike. So I’m rather bored. But if you tame me, my life will be filled with sunshine. I’ll know the sound of footsteps that will be different from all the rest. Other footsteps send me back underground. Yours will call me out of my burrow like music. And then, look! You see the wheat fields over there? I don’t eat bread. For me, wheat is no use whatever. Wheat fields say nothing to me. Which is sad. But you have hair the color of gold. So it will be wonderful, once you’ve tamed me! The wheat, which is golden, will remind me of you. And I’ll love the sound of the wind in the wheat…”
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Migs, I have a feeling that you’re in love right now. Yi-heee.
Misterhubs at Jul 12, 07 at 12:11 am
Not just yet, Misterhubs. Still looking. Maybe soon. Hehehe!
Migs at Jul 12, 07 at 12:27 am
here’s mine…
“You are not at all like my rose,” he said. “As yet you are nothing. No one has tamed you, and you have tamed no one. You are like my fox when I first knew him. He was only a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But I have made him my friend, and now he is unique in all the world.”
chuchu caracas at Jul 12, 07 at 1:43 am
The last time I read Le Petit Prince was in high school. Even then, it was magical especially when one is in love. But the funny thing is whenever you’re in love, you look for hidden meanings in songs etc, and all you see is L-O-V-E! Have fun Migs!
JHVRothschild at Jul 12, 07 at 2:01 am
kudos to you migs.
you just made my day
Nadriamez at Jul 12, 07 at 5:42 am
That’s how I nurtured my relationships. I keep the fox’s philosophy in mind. No wonder, they last long, no matter how many trials we face ahead.
Kitsune at Jul 12, 07 at 9:07 am
i didnt know why but the last time i read the book i was crying like a girl… in the privacy of my room of course :p
dan at Jul 12, 07 at 3:22 pm
margaux at Jul 12, 07 at 8:01 pm
i love that book!
Boyd at Jul 13, 07 at 2:12 am
my fave quote from that wise ol’ fox:
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
damn that fox! he makes a lot of sense.
sushi77 at Jul 13, 07 at 1:57 pm