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A French postal worker, who used to fly the coast of Africa delivering postal dispatches, wrote a delightfully witty book I read long ago. In the story of Le Petit Prince , the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, talks about how his plane broke down in the desert one time. He narrates the tale as his pilot self, recounting the story of a small person who approached him while trying to repair the plane. This character claimed to be an alien who had been hopping planets prior to landing on Earth, which had such tremendous gravity that it couldn't be escaped. Being stuck on Earth didn't seem to be a particular bother other than the fact that it meant he could never return to his origin planet, where his favorite flower lived. The story turns into a narrative on the nature of love and loss as the alien prince tries to adapt to the ways of Earth and comments on all the strange characters he'd met on the various planets prior to getting marooned in the desert with the pilot. I reco...