Текст песни Антуан де Сент-Экзюпери - Глава 15

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     The sixth planet was ten times larger than the previous. She lived
old man who wrote a thick book.
     - Look at that! Here came a traveler! - He said, noting
The Little Prince.

     The little prince sat down on the table to catch his breath. He has so much
traveled!
     - Where are you from? - Asked the old man.
     - What is that huge book? - Asked the little prince. - What do you
doing here?
     - I am a geographer, - replied the old man.
     - What is a geographer?
     - This is a scholar who knows where the seas, rivers, towns,
mountains and deserts.
     - How interesting! - Said the little prince. - That's - present
deal!
     And he looked at the planet of the geographer. He had never seen
such a magnificent planet!
     - Your planet is very beautiful, - he said. - And the oceans do you have?
     - I do not know - said the geographer.
     - Oh-oh-oh ... - disappointed handed the little prince. - A Mountain
is there?
     - I do not know - repeated the geographer.
     - A city, rivers, deserts?
     - And that, I do not know.
     - But you are a geographer!
     - That's right - the old man said. - I am a geographer, not a traveler.
I really do not have enough travelers. It is not geographers score
cities, rivers, mountains, seas, oceans and deserts. Geography - too
important person, he had no time to walk around. He goes out of his office.
But it plays host to travelers and record their stories. And if
anyone of them will tell something interesting, geographer suggests
Help and checks whether this man is honest traveler.
     - Why?
     - Why, if the traveler would be to lie in geography textbooks
all messed up. And if he drinks too much - too trouble.
     - And why?
     - Because drunkards see double. And where in fact
one mountain, geographer mention two.
     - I knew a man ... He would have made a bad
traveler - said the little prince.
     - Very possible. So, if it appears that a traveler -
a decent person, then check its opening.
     - How to check? Go and look?
     - Oh no. It's too complicated. Simply require that
traveler presented evidence. For example, if it is open
big mountain, let it bring with large stones.
     Geographer suddenly came to the excitement:
     - But you and the traveler himself! You have come from far away! Tell
me about your planet!
     And he opened a thick book and a sharpened pencil. Stories
Travelers first written in pencil. It was only after
as a traveler will present evidence, you can write it
ink story.
     - Listening to you, - said the geographer.
     - Well, I was not so interesting, - said the little prince.
- I have all very small. There are three volcanoes. Two act as a
long extinct. But you never know what can happen ...
     - Yes, anything can happen - confirmed geographer.
     - Then I have a flower.
     - Flowers we did not note - said the geographer.
     - Why ?! It's the most beautiful!
     - Because flowers are ephemeral.
     - How does it - ephemeral?
     - Books on geography - the most precious books in the world -
explained geographer. - They will never become obsolete. It's very rare
case to the mountain budge. Or to the ocean dry. We Are
write about things eternal and immutable.
     - But extinct volcano can wake up - the little prince interrupted.
- And what is the & quot; & quot ;? ephemeral
     - Goes out volcano or acts, it is for us, geographers, has no
values ​​- said the geographer. - The important thing: the mountain. It does not change.
     - And what is the & quot; & quot ;? ephemeral - Asked the little prince, who once
asking a question, do not calm down, has not yet received a response.
     - This means: