← The next planet was inhabited by a drunk. 🔊✎
← “What are you doing here?” he asked the drunk. 🔊✎
← “I’m drinking,” said the drunk in a voice devoid of hope. 🔊✎
← “To forget,” answered the drunk. 🔊✎
← “To forget I am ashamed,” confessed the drunk, and lowered his head. 🔊✎
← “Ashamed of drinking!” concluded the drunk. And that was all he had to say. 🔊✎
← “This guy,” said the little prince to himself, “he thinks a bit like the drunk.” 🔊✎
← But he’s less ridiculous than the king, the vain man, the businessman and the drunk. 🔊✎
← Not the king, not the vain man, not the drunk, not the businessman. 🔊✎
← There, you can find one hundred and eleven kings (not forgetting, of course, the tribal kings), seven thousand geographers, nine hundred thousand businessmen, seven and a half million drunks, three and a half million vain people, all in all about two billion grown-ups. 🔊✎