In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The king appeared... with his dogs and sycophants behind him.
If elephants didn't exist, you couldn't invent one. They belong to a small group of living things so unlikely they challenge credulity and common sense.
After a hundred years the son of the King then reigning, who was of another family from that of the sleeping Princess, was a-hunting on that side of the country, and he asked what those towers were which he saw in the middle of a great thick wood.
Elephants are contagious.
The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Elephants are not human, of course. They are something much more ancient and primordial, living on a different plane of existence. Long before we arrived on the scene, they worked out a way of being in the world that has not fundamentally changed and is sustainable, and not predatory or destructive.
The events with Henry III happened, obviously the way it happened, liberties were taken.
My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere.
The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.