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Where are the elephants?

13 Thursday Aug 2020

Posted by la Clarina in Books, History, Stories

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elephants, Frederick II, Hannibal, Jean de Brunhoff, Mark Shand, Rudyard Kipling

Don’t you think that literature has far too few elephants?

I mean elephant characters, with a central place in the story and a definite personality. You see, yesterday I was discussing Elephant World Day with some friends, and at one point the conversation veered on the literary aspect of the subject – and there was surprisingly little. Surprisingly, when you consider what wonderful, intelligent and meaningful creatures they are – and yet, when you discount those elephants that are merely extras or window dressing, that have nothing to say for themselves, that just walk through the forests, crash into gardens and are hunted, I can think of only a handful of literary elephants. Continue reading →

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