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Introducing the Elephant Curve (gregluck.com)
51 points by bigstorm on Oct 26, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments


In the book a boa constrictor swallows an elephant. The silhouette of the boa then becomes an elephant curve.

That doesn't actually happens in the book. The image is just creative drawing by the narrator but most people thinks of it as a hat. Only the Little Prince recognized it immediately as a elephant inside a boa constrictor.


"Though I did not read the book at school"

A lot of people actually read that book voluntarily, outside of school :-)



I don't get it? All I see is a hat.


A day's-worth of elphant-curve traffic is done not when there are no more visitors to arrive, but when there are no more visitors to leave.




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