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Originally Posted by Rizla
You appear not to have read my post. Much as I find big-game hunting personally distasteful, that's not what I'm referring to in King Solomon's Mines. In the book, the protagonist kills many, many elephants, maybe a whole herd, for ONE MEAL. That's repulsive and wasteful, and not (as I understand it) big-game hunting.
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It's fiction. No elephants were harmed in the writing of the book
. Why not mention the thousands of human beings who die in the war at the end of the book? Isn't that equally distasteful?