Search Engine Madness

Two critical questions have led searchers on Yahoo! to discover Plausible Story this morning:

what is the dominant idea in the story of little prince

and

house for sale on ann drive east greenwich rhode island.

That these requests should have brought anyone here is astounding, as both topics—Saint-Exupery and Rhode Island real estate—have, until now, been sorely neglected on this blog. But now I will attempt to rectify this sorry state of affairs.

The dominant idea in the story of The Little Prince is to be found, of course, in chapter XXI, in which the little prince meets, tames, and says goodbye to the fox.

—Adieu, dit le renard. Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.

You can only see well with your heart. What is essential is invisible to the eye. The fox adds a corollary to this:

—Les hommes ont oublié cette vérité, dit le renard. Mais tu ne dois pas l'oublier. Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé. Tu es responsable de ta rose...

People forget this truth, but you shouldn't forget it. You become forever responsible for what you tame. You are responsible for your rose.

As for the house on Ann Drive in East Greenwich, RI, I'm afraid the best I can do is point you to a Mapquest map. Maybe you could go there and see if there are any "for sale" signs in the yards.

Update: And here's another curious search, also from Yahoo!:

returning borrowed dorm milk crates

Which leads one to wonder why these people don't use google. But nevermind—we aim to serve. The fact is one should never return borrowed dorm milk crates, period. By the time you're through borrowing them, the person you borrowed them from probably has a refurbished life purchased with credit from Ikea or Crate (not plastic milk-crate, mind you) and Barrel. No, one should not return them; one should pass them along to the next person in need.

Comments

[Kat]

LOL!

You're a wealth of good information, Hilllady!

[Michael J.]

Thanks for that. The Saint-Exupery bits were a huge mind-bomb, which I blogged at http://www.notio.com/2006/08/the_collision_o.html

[hilllady]

At least you didn't have a sudden impulse to move to Rhode Island, Michael J.! But I want those milk crates back—wait, what am I saying? Find them a good home.