Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga

Author:Robert Hellenga [HELLENGA, ROBERT]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780316090384
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2009-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

In the evening, when the sun finally went down, he grilled a pork chop and drank a couple of beers, and then he went out to the barn to say good night to Norma Jean. It was dark in the barn, and he didn’t realize at first that she was crying. But when his eyes got used to the dark, he could see that her head was lowered, her powerful trunk hanging loose, and big tears were flowing from under her wiry eyelashes and running down her elephant cheeks and splashing onto the floor.

Rudy knew just how she felt. “It’s going to be okay, sweet- heart,” he said. “You’re going to be all right. Your friend will be back tomorrow night. I’m here with you now. It’s just for a little while. I’ll take good care of you, don’t worry.”

Her tears upset Rudy. Were they really tears, or just some kind of natural discharge? Could she be in musth? But he thought that only male elephants went into musth.

She kept on crying, letting it all out now, sobbing, her whole frame trembling. Rudy climbed up on the rails of the stall so that he could reach her head. He rubbed the two humps, softly rounded like breasts or buttocks. He leaned over and kissed the hump nearest him. “It’s going to be all right.” He scratched her neck and her rough trunk. She used her trunk to put his hand in her mouth, and he stroked her tongue, which seemed to calm her.

He went up to the house and brought back his guitar, which he’d hardly played since he came to Texas. It was an old small-bodied Gibson that he’d picked up on Maxwell Street the first time Helen went to Italy. He sat down on a bale of alfalfa, and began to sing:

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