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YOU go down shade to the river, where naked men sit on
flat brown rocks, to watch the ferry, in the sun;
And you cross the ferry with the naked people, go up the
tropical lane
Through the palm‐trees and past hollow paddy‐fields where
naked men are threshing rice
And the monolithic water‐buffaloes, like old, muddy stones
with hair on them, are being idle;
And through the shadow of bread‐fruit trees, with their dark
green, glossy, fanged leaves
Very handsome, and some pure yellow fanged leaves;
Out into the open, where the path runs on the top of a dyke
between paddy‐fields:
And there, of course, you meet a huge and mud‐grey
elephant advancing his frontal bone, his trunk curled
round a log of wood:
So you step down the bank, to make way.
D H Lawrence, Elephant

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Abraham Lincoln

Avatar, Performed by the ORF Radio Symphonic Orchestra at the film music gala concert, “Hollywood in Vienna”, October 3rd and 4th 2013