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“Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation again. “It is a little lonely in the desert…”
“It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.
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prince
“Where are the men?” the little prince at last took up the conversation again. “It is a little lonely in the desert…”
“It is also lonely among men,” the snake said.
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“All company is bad company except with one’s peers”, said Nietzsche (but Nietzsche went mad in a desert of solitude because he had no equals…).
I don’t know the story of the little prince, but it feels to me like he’d to better to find company in the snake. At least one knows a snake is evolved to bite them eventually, that being its nature. He could expect more of men, and yet is quite likely to be surprised and disappointed.
It’s like you said to me the other year, in that quote from No Exit: ‘hell is other people’, especially if you are in surrounded isolation, a tight-packed circle of bodies that will never be on your wavelength. The other thing worse is the seventh solitude.