The little prince marveled at such power. Had he possessed it, he could have been watched not forty-four, but seventy-two, or even a hundred, or even two hundred sunset in one and the same day, without ever having to move his chair. And as he felling rather sad, remembering his small abandoned planet, he plucked up the courage to ask the king a favour.
"I should like to see a sunset . . .Please, do me that kindness . . . Order the sun to set . . ."
"If I were to order a general to fly from one flower to another like a butterfly, or to write a tragedy, or to change himself into a sea bird, and if the general did not carry out the order, which one of us would be at fault?"