/lit/ - Literature

>>15826022
>Why am I so pathetic?

Not at all anon, you're a normal person with empathy, and elephants really inspires sympathy in people it seems.
Back in ancient rome seven elephants were put in the arena to be slaughtered as entertainment by Pompey. The crowds expected a epic bloody animal fight as usual, but instead the elephants tried to flee and roared mournfully. So the crowd instead felt really bad for them and actually started to cry and curse Pompey.
Years later when he was killed in Egypt, people still hadn't forgotten and said it was poetic justice that he was killed in the continent the elephants came from