Smith's (Wilbur's, not Ian's} grandfather, Courtney Smith had been a transport rider during the Witwatersrand gold rush in the late 1880s, had commanded a Maxim gun team during the Zulu Wars. He had also hunted elephant both as sport and to provide a lot of meat for his family. Courtney Smith had a magnificent moustache which could tell wonderful stories to his grandson about the fictitious Ballantyne family, who helped colonise Rhodesia. After that he returned to the Courtney family. For his fans had made it very clear that they would like to read his novels and revisit his family of characters faster than he could write them. After 4 wives and tons of books and bucks, Smith died unexpectedly on 13 November 2021 at his Cape Town home; he was 88.
xxx/ellauri075.html on line 517: His numerous letters to the many young homosexual men among his close male friends are more forthcoming. To his homosexual friend, Howard Sturgis, James could write: "I repeat, almost to indiscretion, that I could live with you. Meanwhile I can only try to live without you." In another letter to Howard Sturgis, following a long visit, James refers jocularly to their "happy little congress of two". In letters to Hugh Walpole he pursues convoluted jokes and puns about their relationship, referring to himself as an elephant who "paws you oh so benevolently" and winds about Walpole his "well meaning old trunk".
xxx/ellauri148.html on line 531: 7:4 Sinun kaulas on niinkuin elephantinluinen torni; sinun silmäs ovat niinkuin Hesbonin kalalammikot Batrabbimin portissa; sinun nenäs on niinkuin Libanonin torni, joka katsoo Damaskuun päin.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 488: “I've come to appreciate this. The harsh details in the background with the stillness in the foreground here—” It was Swans Reflecting Elephants by Dalí. “See this arrogant son of a bitch, Juice, missing the scene. The elephants standing on the shore and the swans floating over them.” Behind the swans grew trees, twisting to the sky. “He's so arrogant. And ignorant. He walked all the way from the town up the hill in the distance and here he's facing away with his hand on his hip. He can't see the color of the sky different from the reflection in the pond.”
xxx/ellauri186.html on line 287: he stalls above me like an elephant." hemmo huojuu mun yllä kuin elefantti.
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xxx/ellauri357.html on line 412: The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit watch the roots; the lion, the tiger, the horse, the elephant watch the fruits.
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 176: But are they worth reading? Does a little ‘bolo’ go a long way? a New York Times reporter asked Anthony Julius, the litigation lawyer specializing in anti-defamation and anti-Semitism. His doctoral dissertation, charging Eliot with antiSemitism, resulted in the notorious publication of T.S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form. ‘‘They are not worth reading,’’ Mr. Julius said. ‘‘They tap, in the most puerile way imaginable, racist fantasies of the sexual superiority of blacks’’ (Lyall). Here is an example of feeling the elephant without contact, because if he had read the verse, he would see that Columbo the Jew was the one with the biggest cock. “And he refuses to acquit Eliot of anti-Semitism in this case merely because the poet has managed to be superior to the black bigotry his poem evokes” (Menand).
xxx/ellauri410.html on line 198: On his return voyage, Columbo sits on the toilet “areading in the psalter,” he grabs the boson’s wife “and raped her on the bowsprit” (IMH 317). In this case, perhaps the elephant's trunk is touching the wrong animal.
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