e robe.
But the little prince was wondering. The planet was tiny. Over what could the king really reign? "Sire ..." he ventured, "excuse me for asking ..."
"I command you to ask," the king hastened to say.
"Sire ... over what do you reign?"
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"Over everything," the king answered, with great simplicity.
"Over everything?"
With a discreet gesture the king pointed to his planet, to the other planets, and to the stars.
"Over all that?" asked the little prince.
"Over all that ..." the king answered.
For not only was he an absolute monarch, but a universal monarch as well.
"And do the stars obey you?"
"Of course," the king replied. "They obey immediately. I tolerate no insubordination."
Such power amazed the little prince. If he had wielded it himself, he could have watched not forty-four but seventy-two, or even a hundred, even two hundred sunsets on the same day without ever having to move his chair! And since he was feeling rather sad on account of remembering his own little planet, which he had forsaken, he ventured to ask a favor of the king: "I'd like to see a sunset ... Do me a favor, your majesty ... Command the sun to set ..."
"If I commanded a general to fly from one flower to the next like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to turn into a seagull and if the general d not carry out my command, which of us would be in the wrong, the general or me."
.ylmrif etiuq ,ecnirp elttil eht as ",eb dluow uoY"
".elbanosaer era sredro ym esuaceb ecneidebo dnammoc ot dne ma I .noitulover a eb lliw ereht ,naeco eht ni pmuj ot stcejbus ruoy dnammoc uoy fI .nosaer nopu lla fo tsrif desab si ytirohtuA" .no tnew gnik eht ",mrofrep nac hcae tahw hcae morf dnammoc tsum enO .yltcaxE"
.ti deksa dah eh ecno noitseuq a fo og tel reven ohw ,ecnirp elttil eht detsisni "?tesnus ym nehT"
" .elbarovaf era snoitidnoc litnu ,tnemnrevog fo ecneics ym ot gnidrocca ,tiaw llahs I tuB .ti dnammoc llahs I .tesnus ruoy evah llahs uoY"
.ecnirp elttil eht deriuqni "?eb taht lliw nehw dnA"
".deyebo ma I llew woh ees ll'uoy dnA !ytrof-neves dnuora thginot eb lliw taht ... dnuora ... dnuora eb lliw tahT !llew ,lleW" .radnelac egral a gnitlusnoc tsrif ,gnik eht deilper "!llew ,lleW"
p elttil ehT
