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Call me dense if you will, but what does taming a fox have to do with editing a post?
Unless there was another admonition of Saint Exupery that I am not familiar with.
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Yes... Of course (Doh! on my part)... This is Art School 101 stuff... I went to Art School (once upon a time), so why did I forget this application in relation to this post?
The Article does read much better at the current stopping point.
I thought that his admontion was about not caring about justice (as just desserts), only about getting people to act right in the future.
Hmm... I am thinking of the conversation between the Little Prince and the Fox, where the Fox says that one must take responsibility for what one tames.
I think it has been so long since I read any of St Exupery's work to really recall what the admonition was. It was 30 years ago, I believe. I also recall in Night Flight that one of the Characters was admonished for the death of a pilot, and although the person had little to do with the death. The admonishing character later explains that what he did had little to do with right/wrong, but about making sure that pilots did not die.
Is that the admonishment to which you are referring?
Yes, that is what I was thinking of. I hadn't read about the Little Prince and the Fox.