As the little prince watched him, he felt that he loved this lamplighter who was so faithful to his orders. He remembered the sunsets which he himself had gone to seek, in other days, merely by pulling up his chair; and he wanted to help his friend.
You know, he said, I can tell you a way you can rest whenever you want to...
I always want to rest, said the lamplighter.
For it is possible for a man to be faithful and lazy at the same time.
The little prince went on with his explanation:
Your planet is so small that three strides will take you all the way around it. To be always in the sunshine, you need only walk along rather slowly. When you want to rest, you will walk-- and the day will last as long as you like.
That doesnt do me much good, said the lamplighter. The one thing I love in life is to sleep.
Then youre unlucky, said the little prince.
I am unlucky, said the lamplighter. Good morning.
And he put out his lamp.
That man, said the little prince to himself, as he continued farther on his journey, that man would be scorned by all the others: by the king, by the conceited man, by the tippler, by the businessman. Nevertheless he is the only one of them all who does not seem to me ridiculous. Perhaps that is because he is thinking of something else besides himself.
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