If only more of today's rich people were classy enough to spend their time making life-size stone sculptures of dying elephants instead of whatever it is they do instead.
Really not sure why you'd want to sculpt anything besides elephants, really.
Is Jansson romanticizing the "starving artist" trope here, or meta-commenting on it?
Edit: Missed the "or".
OMG I didn't even think of that. At this point in her career she was basically making ends meet for the first time ever.
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The Moomins is a franchise created by finnish author/illustrator Tove Jansson. It features a vast amount of comics, TV series, movies, books and games, telling various stories mostly set in moominvalley.
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