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Saint-Exupéry begins by saying that when he was six he drew a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an elephant. Says lie: "I showed my masterpiece to the grownups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adult Fairy Tale | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...drawing was not a picture of a hat. . . . But since the grownups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grownups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Adult Fairy Tale | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

Optimism. General Sir Archibald Wavell reported on his recent inspection trip to Assam and Bengal, the northeastern provinces where a Japanese invasion is threatened when the monsoon rains end in mid-October. Optimist Wavell compared Japan to a boa constrictor which has swallowed a goat and has to have time to digest it. He spoke of retaking Burma. Wavell's optimism may have been regarded by some as a military boost to the United Nations. But there was no cause for optimism in a political situation that, unless remedied, will endanger the United Nations' dealing with Asia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Time is Now | 10/5/1942 | See Source »

...Note: Yeah, boa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Herpetologists have recently decided that the Boa Constrictor should be called Constrictor constrictor. I have decided that it should not. Two can play at that game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Urbanity's Insanity | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

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