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The Most Beautiful Things

Day 6,019, 05:24 • Published in USA USA

• by Pfenix Quinn

The Most Beautiful Things

_{Vol.1, No.6, Day 6020}

_{What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 1943}

Flag said to Eternity...
"You are too vast. Too unfathomable. And you smell of corpses."

Eternity pointed to Presence and said...
"There you go again. Flitting about hither and yon, consumed by the notion of merging with me."

Presence looked up and asked...
"Is that you Eternity? Have you come for me? If you could kindly hold on for a little time more, I still have work to do here."

Flag said to Presence...
"You are too small and too fast. One just barely catches your scent and then it is gone again."

Wind, who was passing by, said to Flag...
"Stop complaining. Without the eternal movements all around you, vast, never-ending, with their source in the cosmos... And without now, without the weave and the dyes and the painstaking careful raising of your standard, you would have neither form nor flutter."

Flag thought that they would continue to wave, but not in order to explain things. Flag nodded thanks to Wind, who was already gone again.

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Pfenix Quinn Day 6,019, 05:25

“I am looking for friends. What does that mean -- tame?"

"It is an act too often neglected," said the fox. "It means to establish ties."

"To establish ties?"

"Just that," said the fox. "To me, you are still nothing more than a little boy who is just like a hundred thousand other little boys. And I have no need of you. And you, on your part, have no need of me. To you I am nothing more than a fox like a hundred thousand other foxes. But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world....”

― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince