Really not sure why you'd want to sculpt anything besides elephants, really.
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.
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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