These things, as the prince says, make the lamplighter friend material: “‘That man is the only one of them all whom I could have made my friend. But his planet is indeed too small. There is no room on it for two people…’” (14.36). The not-having-any-room is a problem. But the prince isn’t as bummed to say goodbye to the lamplighter as he is to the lamplighter’s planet. As the narrator sneaks in, “What the little prince did not dare confess was that he was sorry most of all to leave this planet, because it was blest every day with 1440 sunsets!” (14.37). The lamplighter is cool, but more than 1,000 sunsets per day is even better