For him, the square is a place of intrigue and mystery, full of elephant-keepers and married couples who speak different languages.
The clearing was packed full of elephants, the younger bulls taking advantage of the sparring opportunities with other contemporaries, as well as the chance to test their strength and dominance by mounting each other.
Uncle Mongkhon used to have a corral full of elephants before the people at Monopolated Elephant Tours came to the Island and started underpricing the competition, monopolizing mountain-pass tariffs, and staking their claim upon farangs at hotels three stars and up - doing, in short, what they had done on so many other islands like ours.
It makes a reissue of Tove Jansson's 1972 novel The Summer Book seem like a butterfly released into a room full of elephants; it makes such a reissue - a masterpiece of microcosm, a perfection of the small, quiet read - even more of a relief.
If his pseudonym -- originally pronounced Teutonically, to rhyme with "choice" rather than "goose" -- was not quite a household word, his drawings, full of elephants, kangaroos and many-tufted trees, had been featured on numerous magazine covers, and his advertisements (notably for Flit bug spray) were widely recognized.
10 00pm: Bush is questioned about his last name and being the "biggest elephant in a room full of elephants".
At the far north-west point there's a beach full of huge elephant seals.
Family Art Lab: 'A Parade for Ganesh' (Saturday) Babar, Dumbo, Horton — children's tales are full of interesting elephants.
Certainly, painting monkeys with curiously human faces after 1859 was not the same as painting them before that date, just as having a naked woman lying on a couch dreaming about forests full of rogue elephants with curling trunks after 1900 was not the same as doing so in the previous century.
