Chapter 6 🔊✎
Oh, little prince! I gradually came to understand your melancholy life. 🔊✎ For a long time, your only distraction was the sweetness of the sunsets. 🔊✎ I learned about this on the morning of the fourth day, when you told me:
“I love sunsets. Let’s go and watch a sunset…” 🔊✎
You looked very surprised for a moment, and then you laughed at your mistake. 🔊✎ And you said:
And indeed! Everyone knows that when it’s noon in the US, the sun is setting in France. 🔊✎ If you could travel to France in a minute, you could watch the sunset. Unfortunately, France is too far away. But, on your tiny planet, all you had to do was move your chair a few feet. 🔊✎ And you could watch the sunset any time you wanted… 🔊✎
“Once, I watched the sun set forty-three times!” 🔊✎ And a bit later, you added:
“You know… when you’re very sad, it’s good to watch sunsets…” 🔊✎
“So on the day of the forty-three sunsets, you were very sad?” 🔊✎
But the little prince didn’t answer. 🔊✎
