It was a required reading for us in elementary.... that's a few years ago.... :))))) But you're right... children pa rin tayo. I think The Little Prince is special to me because it reminds me of my teacher and how much she loved it... I can still see her expression when we're going through the book :)
"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")
I will never forget that second sentence...ang galing...also using the imagination...esp yung sa sheep sa box..hehehe
its not a thick tome Ted, I personally like it because there are so many lessons in it which are simply stated and presented...if you are in the mood for philosophizing (ehem) sometimes while crunching on something tasty, you may enjoy it :-)
The Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novel. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best-selling books ever.
Though ostensibly a children's book, The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic points about life and human nature. Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting a young prince in the middle of the Sahara. The essence of the book is contained in the great and famous lines uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important."
Wow Cat, you've hit the spot! Though it was in grade school, and maybe in high school that I read it again, those exact two thematic messages mentioned above still stand out --- when the fox taught the little prince how to tame him, and when the Little Prince was confronted by hundreds (if not thousands) of beautiful roses... =)
Goodness! I blame St. Exupery and other novelists like Dostoeyevsky (which I've read a lot in grade school as well) for my being a bit over-sensitive, hahah!
Btw, the songs from the movie The Little Prince are really nice and a sheer delight. Gene Wilder was the Fox, Bob Fosse was the Snake, Richard Kiley was the Pilot and Steven Warner was the Little Prince. It is a must see.
ikaw? over-sensitive? perish the thought! *ROTFLMAO*
*standing up*
I've read Crime and Punishment years ago...yung The Brothers Karamazov nya na-start ko pero di ko na-finish...back grade six to..probably the reason why di ko na nabalikan..hehehe
ay, sayang..don't have it and haven't seen it...please tell me how it goes when you do get the time to see it...hmm..may pirated kaya ng ganon sa MCS? ehehehe...ooops...
These two books, "The Little Prince," and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," along with "Hope for the Flowers," were introduced to me when I was in college. I think they were required readings in both my English Lit and Philo 1 subjects. I always had the impression that these carried adult themes, inspite of their seeming juvenile subjects. In my opinion, these books had heavy philosophical undertones as they were quite introspective. I can't tell if they would have appealed to me in high school much less in grade school since my high school readings was limited to the Hardy Boys series and a dash of boring classic Englit such as Edgar Allan Poe.
Hahahaha!! Oo, over-sensitive, bakit, may angal? I've read Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot, ano pa ba? But nowadays, you can't make me read those books anymore... I have mga around 150 unread books at home (bili lang nang bili, haha), yung Satanic Verses ni Rushdie pa lang ang nabasa ko, last week =)
yes, that is true..I remember it too..in fact I remember it because at age seven, don ko na discover and word na boa ..hehehe...and the baobab trees yata don din..if I am not mistaken...
hmm..its surprising for me na college inintro sya sa inyo Chito...I thought usually mga pang high-school nga ito na books eh...and in fact...although Little Prince was not required reading for us in elementary...am surprised some people do read it still earlier than I had initially thought...
back in elementary..I begged my father to buy me Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew books :-) and believe it or not, I developed a huge crush on Edgar Allan Poe at one time...I saw a picture of him na parang feeling ko epitome of tall-dark-handsome (TDH) even if it was probably not true, and he was sitting for goodness sakes so I don' t know if he was tall, but in an instant I was star-struck...
which was really weird..coz while I certainly like mystery stories, I don't like those leaning towards the macabre...*shivers* ...but I definitely remember reading his "The Tell-tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum"..and pati yung "The Cask of Amontillado"....I didn't like his "The Fall of the House of Usher" though...although it was reading the title of this tale what made me interested in EAP's works...*sigh*
As I said, the books seemed to me contained adult themes of introspective philosophy, so maybe the Jesuits found them unsuitable for boys whose brain is almost 100% preoccupied with thoughts of the opposite sex. Kahit na sa college I did not find them easy reading.
But then again maybe we were just late bloomers, hehehe...
Or talagang emotionally advanced kayong mga girls...
Honestly, I'm being honest here. Boys school kasi kami and the counterpart girls' school was not that far away, anyway. In my class (section), we were all "unfair."
At that time, sin duda sin pesar, Senyorita Catherina! But I'll have a chance to confirm that when we meet on October for our Ruby Anniversary/Class Reunion.
hmm...that reminds me, I should downgrade my cable tv plan..increase na naman...and I don't think I have the channels you mentioned already...so might as well wait if may makuhang dee-bee-dee...hihihi!
Hinahanap ko yung DVD ko bago ako umalis pero hindi ko makita. Pa ko kopya ko sana sa kapatid ko sa Seattle. Hayaan mo pag balik ko hahanapin ko ulit tapos pakokopya ko na lang sa kaibigan ko tapos padala ko sa iyo. I share mo nalang kila Boboy, at sa mga iba pang Kayumanguitos. OK.
Actually, yung mga DVDs ko naka organize pero in 3 places. Hindi ko pa na check sa pangatlo kasi kinapos na ako ng time at lilipad na kami sa LA at that time. Nandito kami ngayon sa Portland, Oregon para sa wedding ng pamangkin namin. Tapos punta kami sa Seattle, then Vancouver (EB with BNK, Val and Oselle), then sa Victoria, back to LA then home.
Hayaan mo. Halik kita kay Oselle sa dalawang pisngi. Pictures, sige mag hintay ka na lang...ubo ubo. Di, biro lang. Marami na akong utang sa Multiply. Ako kasi, ine edit ko muna bago ko ipost. Mabagal ako sa computer di kagaya ninyo...he he he
I haven't posted a lot of pics for some time...dami ring work and, one at a time lang kc na pc ma-connect ko sa modem (tinamad mag router kung san ko nalagay yon)...so am not feeling guilty..hehehe..
Aah~~ a very good book indeed!
ReplyDeletewhen a child reads a very inspiring book at a young age, the child is lucky..
ReplyDeleteeh di lucky tayo!! Hihi..
ReplyDeleteanong age mo ba nabasa to? ako yata parang early elementary years...but I still remember it now and then...
ReplyDeleteI also like yung Jonathan Livingston Seagull, but that was only when I was in high school na...
ay..hahaha..how slow of me...children pa rin tayo Rocky *grin*
ReplyDeleteIt was a required reading for us in elementary.... that's a few years ago.... :))))) But you're right... children pa rin tayo. I think The Little Prince is special to me because it reminds me of my teacher and how much she loved it... I can still see her expression when we're going through the book :)
ReplyDelete"On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.")
ReplyDeleteI will never forget that second sentence...ang galing...also using the imagination...esp yung sa sheep sa box..hehehe
Actually, I've never read it. I will have to read it one of these days.
ReplyDeleteIt's a captivating book, Ted.
ReplyDeleteI've read this book 10 times at least !! =)
ReplyDeleteone book that i love myself!
ReplyDeleteits not a thick tome Ted, I personally like it because there are so many lessons in it which are simply stated and presented...if you are in the mood for philosophizing (ehem) sometimes while crunching on something tasty, you may enjoy it :-)
ReplyDeletefrom wikipedia:
ReplyDeleteThe Little Prince (French: Le Petit Prince), published in 1943, is French aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's most famous novel. It has been translated into more than 180 languages and sold more than 80 million copies making it one of the best-selling books ever.
Though ostensibly a children's book, The Little Prince makes several profound and idealistic points about life and human nature. Saint-Exupéry tells of a fox meeting a young prince in the middle of the Sahara. The essence of the book is contained in the great and famous lines uttered by the fox to the Little Prince: "On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." ("It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.") Other key thematic messages are articulated by the fox, such as: "You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed" and "It is the time you have spent with your rose that makes your rose so important."
Wow Cat, you've hit the spot! Though it was in grade school, and maybe in high school that I read it again, those exact two thematic messages mentioned above still stand out --- when the fox taught the little prince how to tame him, and when the Little Prince was confronted by hundreds (if not thousands) of beautiful roses... =)
ReplyDeleteGoodness! I blame St. Exupery and other novelists like Dostoeyevsky (which I've read a lot in grade school as well) for my being a bit over-sensitive, hahah!
Ako nabasa ko yung dalawang books "The Little Prince" at "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" nung nag second childhood ako. Kaya swerte pa rin...he he he.
ReplyDeleteI actually have the DVD of The Little Prince but I haven't had the time to see it yet. I have seen the movie version back in 1977 for the first time.
Btw, the songs from the movie The Little Prince are really nice and a sheer delight. Gene Wilder was the Fox, Bob Fosse was the Snake, Richard Kiley was the Pilot and Steven Warner was the Little Prince. It is a must see.
ReplyDeleteamen to that!
ReplyDelete(I was going to say..high school..last year lang yon..hehehe)
apir! apir! apir!
ReplyDeleteikaw? over-sensitive? perish the thought! *ROTFLMAO*
ReplyDelete*standing up*
I've read Crime and Punishment years ago...yung The Brothers Karamazov nya na-start ko pero di ko na-finish...back grade six to..probably the reason why di ko na nabalikan..hehehe
how about sa third childhood Joey? triple-lucky sana..hahaha!
ReplyDeleteay, sayang..don't have it and haven't seen it...please tell me how it goes when you do get the time to see it...hmm..may pirated kaya ng ganon sa MCS? ehehehe...ooops...
ReplyDeletewaaah! I want it for Christmas gift...
ReplyDeleteparang I heard there was a sequel to this story..but don't know if it is good or was successful...
ReplyDeleteThese two books, "The Little Prince," and "Jonathan Livingston Seagull," along with "Hope for the Flowers," were introduced to me when I was in college. I think they were required readings in both my English Lit and Philo 1 subjects. I always had the impression that these carried adult themes, inspite of their seeming juvenile subjects. In my opinion, these books had heavy philosophical undertones as they were quite introspective. I can't tell if they would have appealed to me in high school much less in grade school since my high school readings was limited to the Hardy Boys series and a dash of boring classic Englit such as Edgar Allan Poe.
ReplyDeleteA Hat Trick would not be so bad huh?:-)
ReplyDeleteHahahaha!! Oo, over-sensitive, bakit, may angal? I've read Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, and The Idiot, ano pa ba? But nowadays, you can't make me read those books anymore... I have mga around 150 unread books at home (bili lang nang bili, haha), yung Satanic Verses ni Rushdie pa lang ang nabasa ko, last week =)
ReplyDeleteTalking about hats. I clearly remember this book with a trick drawing of a boa constrictor that swallowed something and made it look like a hat.
ReplyDeleteyes, that is true..I remember it too..in fact I remember it because at age seven, don ko na discover and word na boa ..hehehe...and the baobab trees yata don din..if I am not mistaken...
ReplyDeleteand that kind of statement really is tempting for me to comment..pero...hmm....'wag na....over-sensitive ang nag post eh..LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteyou said it..not me :-)
ReplyDeletehmm..its surprising for me na college inintro sya sa inyo Chito...I thought usually mga pang high-school nga ito na books eh...and in fact...although Little Prince was not required reading for us in elementary...am surprised some people do read it still earlier than I had initially thought...
ReplyDeleteback in elementary..I begged my father to buy me Bobbsey Twins and Nancy Drew books :-) and believe it or not, I developed a huge crush on Edgar Allan Poe at one time...I saw a picture of him na parang feeling ko epitome of tall-dark-handsome (TDH) even if it was probably not true, and he was sitting for goodness sakes so I don' t know if he was tall, but in an instant I was star-struck...
which was really weird..coz while I certainly like mystery stories, I don't like those leaning towards the macabre...*shivers* ...but I definitely remember reading his "The Tell-tale Heart" and "The Pit and the Pendulum"..and pati yung "The Cask of Amontillado"....I didn't like his "The Fall of the House of Usher" though...although it was reading the title of this tale what made me interested in EAP's works...*sigh*
It swallowed an elephant.
ReplyDeleteAs I said, the books seemed to me contained adult themes of introspective philosophy, so maybe the Jesuits found them unsuitable for boys whose brain is almost 100% preoccupied with thoughts of the opposite sex. Kahit na sa college I did not find them easy reading.
ReplyDeleteBut then again maybe we were just late bloomers, hehehe...
Or talagang emotionally advanced kayong mga girls...
hmm....it may be more honest to take out the "opposite" term....mwahaha! after all, to be fair...well...you get my drift...
ReplyDeletehehehe..Joey, good thing you wrote this..I was going to tease and say it swallowed a hat, that is why it looked like a hat after...mwahaha!
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I'm being honest here. Boys school kasi kami and the counterpart girls' school was not that far away, anyway. In my class (section), we were all "unfair."
ReplyDeletetalaga? no hidden "fairness"? even after all these years?
ReplyDeleteAt that time, sin duda sin pesar, Senyorita Catherina! But I'll have a chance to confirm that when we meet on October for our Ruby Anniversary/Class Reunion.
ReplyDeleteThe first few lines of the song in that scenario in the movie is:
ReplyDeleteIt's a Hat
It's a Hat
It's a sort of a kind of Hat
Painted poorly but it's surely
It's a Hat
You really have to find that DVD there.
malabo yata...baka streaming video somewhere on the wide world of the web
ReplyDeleteo sya..have fun in finding out...:-)
ReplyDeleteGood luck in finding one. I am sure you will.
ReplyDeleteOnce in a while, they show it on TV. Abangan mo na lang sa cable channels mo.:-) Baka sa Turner Classic Movies, lumabas yun.
ReplyDeletehmm...that reminds me, I should downgrade my cable tv plan..increase na naman...and I don't think I have the channels you mentioned already...so might as well wait if may makuhang dee-bee-dee...hihihi!
ReplyDeleteHinahanap ko yung DVD ko bago ako umalis pero hindi ko makita. Pa ko kopya ko sana sa kapatid ko sa Seattle. Hayaan mo pag balik ko hahanapin ko ulit tapos pakokopya ko na lang sa kaibigan ko tapos padala ko sa iyo. I share mo nalang kila Boboy, at sa mga iba pang Kayumanguitos.
ReplyDeleteOK.
wow, thanks Joey...naku, baka maka-linis ka ng di oras dahil sa paghahanap mo :-)
ReplyDeleteOo nga ano:-)
ReplyDeleteActually, yung mga DVDs ko naka organize pero in 3 places. Hindi ko pa na check sa pangatlo kasi kinapos na ako ng time at lilipad na kami sa LA at that time. Nandito kami ngayon sa Portland, Oregon para sa wedding ng pamangkin namin. Tapos punta kami sa Seattle, then Vancouver (EB with BNK, Val and Oselle), then sa Victoria, back to LA then home.
OK, I'll keep you posted.
paki pat on the back kay BNK (di ka naman yata pwedeng humalik sa kanya di ba? hehehe)
ReplyDeletepaki hug kay Val
paki-kiss kay Oselle sa pisngi :-)
have a safe trip and enjoy!
ang pics sana di matagalan *ubo, ubo*
ten-q!
Hayaan mo. Halik kita kay Oselle sa dalawang pisngi. Pictures, sige mag hintay ka na lang...ubo ubo. Di, biro lang. Marami na akong utang sa Multiply. Ako kasi, ine edit ko muna bago ko ipost. Mabagal ako sa computer di kagaya ninyo...he he he
ReplyDeleteDarating din yan.
I haven't posted a lot of pics for some time...dami ring work and, one at a time lang kc na pc ma-connect ko sa modem (tinamad mag router kung san ko nalagay yon)...so am not feeling guilty..hehehe..
ReplyDeletedarating din nga yon :-)
btw, I like you new headshot and the dog in your site. It is actually a Jack Russell Terrier.
ReplyDeletepara syang may black-eye..ehehehe..ang dog, not the cat *wink*
ReplyDelete