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The little prince - LEGO sculpture

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The Little Prince -    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry A king with no subjects, who only issues orders that can be followed, such as commanding the sun to set at sunset. A narcissistic man who only wants the praise which comes from admiration and being the most-admirable person on his otherwise uninhabited planet. A drunkard who drinks to forget the shame of drinking. A businessman who is blind to the beauty of the stars and instead endlessly counts and catalogues them in order to "own" them all (critiquing  materialism ) A lamplighter on a planet so small, a full day lasts a minute. He wastes his life blindly following  orders  to extinguish and relight the lamppost every 30 seconds to correspond with his planet's day and night. An elderly  geographer  who has never been anywhere, or seen any of the things he records, providing a caricature of  specialization  in the contemporary world.