Then the little
prince said earnestly That doesn't matter. Where I live everything is so small! And with perh aps a hint of sadness he added:Anywhere. Straight ahead of him.
Jupiter Mars Venus-- to which we have given names there are also hundreds of others Straight ahead of hi nobody can go very far... the narrator speculates as to which asteroid from which the little prince came.
I had thus learned a second fact of great importance this was that the planet the little prince came from was scarcely any larger than a house! But that did not really urprise me much. I knew very well that in addition to the great planets-- such as the Earth.