It
is noon and I have time to blog because unfortunately my sewing
machine has broken down, so while my daughter fixes it I decided to
blog earlier rather than later. At count so far today we have made
(drum roll please).... 37 dolls and more on the way. I have one week
left to finish before the grandbaby comes for a visit and the
seasonal feast baking and candy making begins! Lol
So
here is an excerot from THE book.... the Little Prince and my
favorite book of all time! Funny that this mentions rag dolls isn't
it?
Chapter
22
“Good
morning,” said the little prince.
“Good
morning,” said the railway switchman.
“What
do you do here?” the little prince asked.
“I
sort out travelers, in bundles of a thousand,” said the switchman.
“I send
off
the trains that carry them; now to the right, now to the left.”
And
a brilliantly lighted express train shook the switchman’s cabin as
it
rushed
by with a roar like thunder.
“They
are in a great hurry,” said the little prince. “What are they
looking
for?”
“Not
even the locomotive engineer knows that,” said the switchman.
And
a second brilliantly lighted express thundered by, in the opposite
direction.
“Are
they coming back already?” demanded the little prince.
“These
are not the same ones,” said the switchman. “It is an exchange.”
“Were
they not satisfied where they were?” asked the little prince.
“No
one is ever satisfied where he is,” said the switchman.
And
they heard the roaring thunder of a third brilliantly lighted
express.
“Are
they pursuing the first travelers?” demanded the little prince.
“They
are pursuing nothing at all,” said the switchman. “They are
asleep
in
there, or if they are not asleep they are yawning. Only the children
are
flattening
their noses against the windowpanes.”
“Only
the children know what they are looking for,” said the little
prince.
“They
waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to
them;
and
if anybody takes it away from them, they cry. . . ”
“They
are lucky,” the switchman said.
If
you get a chance to pick up this book get it! Never have I read
something so eloquently written and so perfectly expressed as this
particular book. (The fox is my favorite character!)
That's
my side of it,
Angel
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