The Little Prince Chapter 1

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An audio transcript voiced by myself of the first chapter of The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry

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Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General)

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The Little Prince Chapter One 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's set 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 ponder deeply then over the Adventures of the jungle and after some work with a colored pencil, I succeeded in making my first drawing My drawing # one. It looked something like this. I showed my masterpiece to the grownups and asked whether the drawing frightened them, but they answered frightened. Why should anyone be frightened by a hat? My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing. I drew the inside of a boa constrictor so that the grownups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained My drawing. # two looked like this. The grownups response this time was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic, and grammar. That is why. At the age of six I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my drawing. Number one end my drawing number two grown ups never understand anything by themselves and it is tiresome for Children to be always and forever explaining things to them. So then I chose another profession and learn to pilot airplanes. I have flown a little over all parts of the world and it is true that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance, I can distinguish china from Arizona if one gets lost in the night. Such knowledge is valuable. In the course of this life. I have had a great many encounters with a great many people who have been concerned with matters of consequence. I have lived a great deal among grown ups. I have seen them intimately close at hand and that hasn't much improved my opinion of them. Whenever I met one of them who seemed to me at all clear sighted, I tried the experiment of showing him my drawing number one which I have always kept. I would try to find out if this person was a person of true understanding, but whoever it was, he or she would always say that is a hat. Then I would never talk to that person about boa constrictors, or primeval forests or stars. I would bring myself down to their level. I would talk to them about bridge and golf and politics and neckties, and the grown up would be greatly pleased to have met such a sensible man.