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Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery: “I showed the grown ups my masterpiece, and I as...”
The Big Lesson of a Little Prince: (Re)capture the Creativity of Childhood

To those who understand life, he says, that sort of a beginning would have rung far more true than any other. For them, for the little prince to be real there must be proof positive. Numerical, preferably. Asteroid B Now we get a sense of the man.
Sign in with Facebook Sign in options. Join Goodreads. They answered:"why be scared of a hat? It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. Share this quote:. Like Quote.
Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature , about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing. In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion. I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing.

These are shown as his reasons why he was unable to become an artist. The first picture is of what most people would deem a hat, which in fact is a boa constrictor who has swallowed an elephant. Ah, the grown-ups….
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The Little Prince, boa and hat illustrations
If you've ever read The Little Prince by Santoine de Saint Exupery We let them turn our elephant eating boa constrictors into hats all the time.
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