The Little Prince: What Grown-Ups Forget
A child draws a boa constrictor swallowing an elephant.
The grown-ups see a hat.
And with that little misunderstanding, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry opens one of the strangest and most beautiful books of the twentieth century.
This Sunday morning, pull up a chair in The Common Room at the Little Station on Commercial Street as we take a deeper look at The Little Prince.
Why does the Prince’s rose matter more than all the other roses in the world? What does the fox mean when he speaks of being “tamed”? Why are the grown-ups so preoccupied with counting, owning, classifying and being important? And…
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