2: Petit Trees (sketch)

2: Petit Trees (sketch)

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Title text: "Petit" being a reference to Le Petit Prince, which I only thought about halfway through the sketch

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Transcript

[Two trees are growing on opposite sides of a sphere.]

Trivia

• [Quote from Randall] "Another fairly old drawing that I scanned"
• Original title "Le Petit"
• Originally posted at Randall's livejournal site.
• View archive at: http://liveweb.archive.org/http://xkcd-drawings.livejournal.com/?skip=40

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Discussion

Randall says that he only thought of the reference to Le Petit Prince while he was drawing this picture. I think that it is likely that Randall was originally thinking of "pedigrees" and the tree structure of a genealogical chart. Since royalty is often descended from earlier royal ancestors, it would not be surprising that while drawing what was originally a pun, Randall thought of the book "Le Petit Prince." 162.158.123.79 16:55, 15 November 2019 (UTC)
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