Il Elefante

Here comes a paragraph in the "Four Seasons in Rome" that is so cute :

"The more pages I turn, the more I find an endearing sweetness in Pliny; he is so curious, so ardent. The elephant's "natural gentleness toward those not so strong as itself," he writes, "is so great that if it gets among a flock of sheep it will remove with its trunk those that come in its way, so as not unwittingly to crush one."

~ on Pliny and his Naturalis Historia.


I'm still reading the "winter" now...