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    Elephant: An Indian Tale
    Elephant: An Indian Tale
    Elephant: An Indian Tale
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    Elephant: An Indian Tale

    By Jules Okapi

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    Didier lives life as a normal, largish elephant in Mumbai, India with his mother and the rest of the herd owned by Mr. Rahol. Discontent with his elephant life, Didier wonders if he’d prefer to be another animal, instead. His mother tells fantastic tales of the wild, before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal, but neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol’s herd understand Didier's obsession with fighting his destiny.

    With his friend the field mouse, Didier embarks on a quest to ask all of the other animals which animal he should be instead. Despite all his effort, not until the time for the festival for the elephant god rolls around in Mumbai once more that Didier understands his inmost heart.

    keywords: elephant, India, Mumbai, Bombay, travel stories, talking animals, monkey, Indian, Ganesha, elephant god, animals in captivity, slavery, freedom, identity, metaphysical and visionary

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Sun Press
    Release dateAug 3, 2011
    ISBN9781465996770
    Elephant: An Indian Tale
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    Jules Okapi

    Jules Okapi has worked as a freelance journalist, writing essays on graffiti art, psychology, journalism, meditation, movies and other topics. Jules has also lived or spent considerable time in India, Vancouver BC, San Francisco, Albuquerque, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York, San Diego, Prague, London, Berlin, Sydney and Swinoujscie, Poland. She currently lives in McLeod Ganj, India, where she writes full time and does volunteer work. For more information about her and her writing, visit http:julesokapi.blogspot.com

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      Elephant - Jules Okapi

      Synopsis

      Didier lives life as a normal, largish elephant in Mumbai, India with his mother and the rest of the herd owned by Mr. Rahol. Discontent with his elephant life, Didier wonders if he’d prefer to be another animal, instead. His mother tells fantastic tales of the wild, before humans captured her and turned her into a domestic animal, but neither she nor the rest of Mr. Rahol’s herd understand Didier's obsession with fighting his destiny.

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      ELEPHANT

      An Indian Tale

      Didier was an elephant. As such, he had a rather large body.

      He had grayish-colored, stiff, cardboardy skin. He had large ears that created a small wind when he flapped them...a medium-sized breeze, if he did so vigorously. He had a long nose with little finger-like appendages at the end that could pick things up. Those appendages could act almost like fingers, at times, they were so dextrous.

      Although they weren’t fingers, of course.

      Nor were they, really, quite as good.

      Didier had very thick legs. In fact, they were so thick, and so sturdy, it was almost like he stood around on the trunks of trees to support his very thick body. They held him up, so he supposed they weren’t all bad. He could even run at a fair clip, again, if he were feeling motivated, but he wasn’t what anyone would consider a speedy animal.

      He had a very silly sort of tail, Didier thought. Almost a donkey’s tail, his twitchy, stumpy tail hung down from almost the very middle of his very large, elephant rear end, swinging there fairly uselessly. Compared to that rear end, the tail appeared so small as to be a bit ridiculous, Didier thought. For the same reason, the tail couldn’t really do much, in terms of keeping bugs and flies away from his large, gray body. Even for the small segment of Didier’s skin that the tail could reach, it couldn’t really swat away the flies that plagued his thick, dry skin.

      He had hair, but it wasn’t soft hair like dog’s...or a human’s.

      His hair was more the consistency of a wire brush. Coarse, hard and stiff, it didn’t cover up much of anything at all, so didn’t even provide protection from the sun or those pesky insects that liked to nibble on his skin.

      While one could argue that having that sort of hair wasn’t strictly necessary with Didier’s tough, un-soft skin, he found the lack of it made him quite self-conscious at times. After all, most of the animals in Mumbai had hair. Donkeys had hair. Monkeys had hair. Even the humans had hair...and while the birds might not, they had feathers, which more than met the same, hair-like requirements.

      And secretly, although he wouldn’t have admitted it to the other elephants for fear of what they might say, Didier found that the aesthetics of really soft, nice hair, even just on one’s head, was much more pleasing than a lack of said hair.

      The other elephants didn’t really talk about it, but the truth was, he was prematurely bald. It mattered little, in Didier’s mind, that his entire species was plagued with the same condition.

      His eyes were really most abysmally small.

      Well, proportionately anyway. For such a large head as his, they were really almost not there at all. And his mouth.

      Well, Didier’s elephant mouth was just silly.

      Falling down uselessly from the base of such a large head, his jaw sat in a patently odd place where he really couldn’t reach much of anything with it. Instead, Didier had to rely solely on his long and rather silly nose. That nose had to be the thing to bring all food to his lips...hay, oatmeal, melon rinds, papaya when he could get it, and so forth...as well as other things, like water.

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