"Be the elephant you wish to see in the room." —Jacob Wren (via Gary Barwin)

An illustration from Stanley in Afrika's Donkere Wildernissen by Henry Morten Stanley (1890).

The Lion Gate from Pen and Pencil Sketches, Being the Journal of a Tour in India by Godfrey Charles Mundy, 1858.

An illustration from The Star of the Sea by N. Gregor (1897).  The caption reads: "All the little images were smashed to pieces by the chief idol, which had never been known to have moved its hands."

An illustration from Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective by Ellis Parker Butler (1918).  The caption reads: "Mr. Winterberry did not seem to be concealed among them."

An illustration from an 1865 issue of Mrs. Grundy magazine.

"Funny that my dreams can so powerfully influence my waking life, while my waking life has so little influence over my dreams." —Jeff Hawkins

[Previously on this very subject.]

Meanwhile:

This is the best rendition of a giraffe jumping off an elephant into a crocodile's mouth that we've seen all year.  From Punch, 1858.

An illustration from a 1903 issue of Punch magazine.

An illustration from a 1910 issue of Hampton's magazine.  The caption reads: "The discoverer of alcohol saw things he never dreamed of."

Five years before the birth of the Elephant Man, Joseph Merrick, an elephant man appeared in Punch (1857).

Do you remember,
when you were a child,
the animals used to call your name?
And you knew in the dark
when the others were dreaming
and you could never get to sleep.
—Cat People (1982)