Too bad it's abstract ...

Before say enough good things about this brilliant work, I'd understand, and at the same time preventing potential future readers, the editorial policy of Folio (Gallimard so), which already has a very good edition (with an index useful and clear) of this work in its constellation, feels compelled to make a re-release cut, mutilated, preferring to pick one version to let the reader make his own work "philological" on the unfinished book by Antoine de St Exupéry.
Anyway ... This prevents the passage preserved here (most reassure us) retains their power, all their brightness, while their particular style; a prose that takes us with a confusing fluidity (despite sometimes long sentences) in the heart of the thought of the author, in the middle of the desert, in a camp, in an imaginary empire, but that seems almost historic. Never give name (except a few places), Saint Ex 'takes us into his world, a highly symbolic world, where we find his favorite themes, that develops during long parables, leaving his writer of immense hat beautiful images that directly affect that speaks to the heart rather than the head (you should see with the heart said the Little Prince!), which move something deep within us.
A book to remember, and consult often ...