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Rhodia Webnotebook 3.5 X 5.5

WGF has written down on a small scrap piece of paper some details about he Rhodia Webnotebook he finds interesting.

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David Copperfield

This little portrait is of the young David Copperfield, a character created by Charles Dicken's. WGF is almost through with the novel and he shared with me while laying on the couch the other day, "I cried when little Jip died."

Cloud Formation inspired by Albrecht Durer

I think this sketch was inspired, or copied from one of Albrecht Durer's painting or drawings. WGF has been copiously working on trying to learn how to draw clouds with pen and ink.

Mr. Collins of Pride & Prejudice

This is one of WGF's favorite actors in the movie Pride & Prejudice, adapted from one of Jane Austen's novels. I overheard him say one evening, while fixing three quarts of iced tea, "That Collins fellow...He makes the movie. I look at him and laugh. Look how short he is."

He is Faithful

Mbembe and the Elephant

This email was in WGF's inbox, forwarded to him by his father. It's a real knee slapper!!!

In 1986, Mkele Mbembe was on holiday in Kenya after graduating from Northwestern University Law School. On a hike through the bush, he came across a young bull elephant standing with one leg raised in the air. The elephant seemed distressed, so Mbembe approached it very carefully. He got down on one knee and inspected the elephant's foot and found a large piece of wood deeply embedded in it. As carefully and as gently as he could, Mbembe worked the wood out with his hunting knife, after which the elephant gingerly put down its foot. The elephant turned to face the man, and with a rather curious look on its face, stared at him for several tense moments. Mbembe stood frozen, thinking of nothing else but being trampled. Eventually the elephant trumpeted loudly, turned, and walked away. Mbembe never forgot that elephant or the events of that day.

Twenty years later, Mbembe was walking through the Chicago Zoo with his teen aged son. As they approached the elephant enclosure, one of the creatures turned and walked over to near where Mbembe and his son Tapu were standing. The large bull elephant stared at Mbembe, lifted its front foot off the ground, then put it down. The elephant did that several times then trumpeted loudly, all the while staring at the man. Remembering the encounter in 1986, Mbembe couldn't help wondering if this was the same elephant. Mbembe summoned up his courage, climbed over the railing and made his way into the enclosure. He walked right up to the elephant and stared back in wonder. The elephant trumpeted again, wrapped its trunk around one of Mbembe's legs and slammed him against the railing, killing him instantly.

Probably wasn't the same elephant.