Dear Knowflakes,

This is going to be a fun topic (for a change!). A recent post on the forum reminded me of the "question" that I am posing. I might add that this is not the first time that I have asked this question, and the responses I have gotten in the past have been fascinating. One last thing - some of you may recognize what "this is" and all I can ask is that you follow the spirit of the author who originally asked it! At some point, I'll let you know what the author thought it was.

Love

Dave

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Good Morning Dave!

Funny question
My first impression is that it is the hat the "Man with the Big Yellow Hat" from Curious George wears.
My son says it's a green potato chip.

T

I just looked more closely....
It's a buffalo that's been swallwoed by a snake.
T

Dave,

Maybe a dinosaur in labor, with twins.

Chris

Hmmmm.... It looks like someone trying to hide under a blanket to me. lol.

Dave

Hmmm - looks like a Dinosaur lying down
Love Sealion

well i think its a "HAT" ...........

well it was just at thought!!!!!!

gOOb

It could be ...

Daisy's googoos under her blankie.

A sweatshirt of one of thinkerbell brother's after she wore it.

Neph and Shell setting up a tent at Flat Rock.

The urinal that fell off the wall of the space needle in the earthquake.

A radiogram of Vulcan's orbit around the Sun.

But I think it is ...

What my coffee pot does on the counter every so often.

Love and Ink Blots,
Darwin

Enchantress...............my thought exactly. Somebody under a blanket...

Rainbow~

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sorta like how I feel when I have *the bloat*
Darwin,Neph doesnt pitch tents,she told me that in a conver once before

ok Dave,I give up..no imagination here..so what is it?

G d morning Dave,

How lovely of you Dave to show this. I recognized it (I felt it)immediately even with just seing a wee bit of the top while loading.

Thank y u and have a wonderful w kend.

GAIA

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It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye

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It's a fleece bankee covering an antique mohair chair....

No! No!...It's the lump under our rug where my husband hides all the stuff that bugs him...

Nope.....it's where the 'ham' for Green eggs and Ham comes from.......

no it's how I look after a pint of Gin........

Oh rats...I give......

a hat?

Darwin ...waht are you saying...My chest isn't uneven heheheheheh LOL - kicking and screaming hehehehehhehe

Actually I think it could be the loch ness monstar having a kip.

hehehhehe

'low to goob! Are you well? Are you comming upto Londond next week or crying off??? Is it next week??? 24th

Anwya got to fly...dust to sprinkle and all that.

Love and hgus all round

Lis

coming to london to see the queen? he ehh heee ehe

hahahhahahaha......wicked laughter ***

hehehhehehe

Yeaze!!!

So how are you anyways?

It is a beached whale. God, SAVE THE WHALES!

This definitely appears to be the visible part of a double bass.

On the other hand, even more likely, perhaps it's a creation of your subconscious intellect, a revealing self-portrait!

All the love that I can raise, with my wounded Heart

The Archer

Darwin, you are too funny.
Hey--it is a snake. See it's eye? But WHAT is in it? It is very crudely drawn, with the snake out straight like that--that's why I can't guess!!!!!!
Love, Piscesdreamer

Dear Knowflakes,

Hey, they've been great so far! (especially the one about the radiogram of Vulcan's orbit!) I'm going to let this go a while further!

Love

Dave

I think it's a huge slug or snail looking for his shell....

~Kel

Kel,you in there??

For more to this mystery,check out GAIAs latest thread everyone..theres some sort of clue there which I cant figure out...
Dave,never propose a mystery to a Scorpio rising (although,personally,I dont even like mystery...)

Aries,

Tough! Yes, there are some clues on GAIA's latest thread, and both of us have deliberately decided to keep the "mystery" as it is. She understands all too well why I asked this question (and the real clue is in the book from which it comes, and neither one of us are telling which book (and please if someone else does know, don't let it out) as the author is making a really beautiful point about life). So, I will for now keep it a mystery...

Love

Dave

well Dave,you know if I had the time today I would search engine myself to death to get the answer,but then Ide just have to post it... ~~haha~~so are you going to tell us before you leave???

Second guess, please..............it's a cross between a camel and a turtle....

Rainbow~

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Aires,

Probably not - I want for other Knowflakes to have their opportunity as well.

Now, what I did do is to prepare my response as to what it is, and it is on a floppy that I am taking, and that way it will be very easy to up load it!

Love

Dave

A disgraced LEO, hiding his light under a blanket?????

Rainbow~

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ITs a very Tired camel....

Hi ,

When I read GAIA's post last night I had a connection with Peanuts comics.

Is that Lioness's (sp) blanket or was it Pigpen? I looked in Gooberz this morning and I saw a Peanuts Comic, but only one.
?????

So that would lioness playing his piano.

David,

I so loved the Little Prince Linda introduced me to. Can't quite remember what it was, but for some reason it brings to mind two elephants making love under a blanket.

Go figure.

Love,
borderCAT

See details, details I missed the eye.
I could not see the eye
even though I read the thread before I replied.

I see it now, and I remember

I must be sick.

Love and Laughter,
borderCAT

its definately a "HAT" that eye is just a bit of dust or something, maybe a cowboy hat and that eye is where the wearer got shot but lucky enough he had his hat on.....he ehehehe...... well if its not a hat and its some kind of snail or something then he definately won't need to eat for a while.........he ehee ehe eh

well thats that and thats a HAT....

gOOb

A snake that ate an elephant, a hat and a oh... no... I see a
disemboweled carcas on an alter of the warrior priestess Xena with very
naughty symbolic representations all being consumed in faithless doom.

Just kidding, a little morbid psychology humor there. You wouldn't believe all the ink blot pix we saw in college.

Gee Dave, you talk about me! It looks like I should check on you more often!

Love and light,
Auriel

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and I'm not afraid of Old Man Saturn either
who thinks he's so tough
just because he rules all the Capricorn Goats
and the Hebrews—and Wisdom—and Maturity
...Linda Goodman in Gooberz

Hi Dave and friends,

I am sorry I was away when this started!!

I KNEW what it was inmediately, I will never forget that book.

A golf coart

Aaaaahhhhh yes Dave,

My Little Prince recognized it along with my inner child! LOL

Last

Why - anyone can see its a boa constrictor
digesting an elephant!!

To enter the kingdom of heaven, we must become as children again...

Love, Carol Ann

Dear Knowflakes,

I have really enjoyed your responses to the question - yes, it was GAIA's thread that inspired me to ask it - I had asked it eons ago when I taught an college English course, and had also many delightful answers (and one of them was "That's me sleeping under my blanket!).

The drawing comes from Antoine de St. Exupery, who was a French author and pilot who died while on a scouting mission during World War II. The name of the book is Le Petite Prince (The Little Prince). It is a very simple story about a prince who comes to Earth and discovers a lot. I read it first in my first French course in high school (it is that simple!), and as GAIA said so well, that version is the best one, as things do get lost in translation, particularly with this book. And yet, it is a really beautiful and very philosophical book, and I find out things every time I reread it (and I still can read the French!).

The drawing I posted comes from the beginning of the book, and I have quoted it as well as given you the "answer" to what it is. And everyone is right!

Love

Dave

"Once when I was six years old I saw a magnificent picture in a book, called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.

In the book it said: "Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."

I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drawing. My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:

(This is the drawing at the top of the thread).

I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.

But they answered: "Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"

My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor, so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:

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The grown-ups response, this time, was to advise me to lay aside my drawings of boa Constrictors, whether from the inside or the outside, and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them."

haha..ONE of LindaG's recommended reading books......

Aries,

And with good reason. It is (or should be ) available in paper...

Love

Dave

Oooh, I was correct!

Love and light,
Auriel

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your absence has made my heart grow fonder
and since you've been out of sight
I've been out of my mind—and body—astrally
trying to communicate with you
...Linda Goodman in Gooberz

Auriel,

I can't even imagine why!

Love

Dave

So my first answer was totally unconscious - I also read this book in high school French class but when I saw the picture I didn't immediately make the connection.

I think that book should be required reading for anyone who wants to have kids or be a teacher! N'est pas?

Terri

Dave,

I never saw this one before...REALLY. I just told you what it looked like to me. I guess this means I'm like a little kid....

Love and light,
Auriel

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your absence has made my heart grow fonder
and since you've been out of sight
I've been out of my mind—and body—astrally
trying to communicate with you
...Linda Goodman in Gooberz

Or maybe it's because I have so many hanging out at my house that I'm starting to think like them!

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your absence has made my heart grow fonder
and since you've been out of sight
I've been out of my mind—and body—astrally
trying to communicate with you
...Linda Goodman in Gooberz

Auriel,

Most definitely the latter!

Love

Dave

P.S. Or maybe it's a past life recall...

Dave

I have that book somewhere, it is the English translation and it is a paperback, but I don't remember seeing the picture in it. I must go and hunt it down and re-read it. I have also seen it acted and narrated as a play at our theatre and it was really well done. at the time my children were a little bit too young to appreciate it and so I really must find it so they can read it.

Love Sealion