Leenor Goralik is a poet, writer, essayist, artist, author of a number of poetry and prose collections, novels, children's books, and several works in the non-fiction genre. Collaborates with the Vedomosti newspaper, the Kommersant publishing house, the Colta.ru project, the poetry magazine Vozdukh and other publications. He teaches costume theory at the Higher School of Economics.It may seem to you that it is pure happiness to have a tiny talking elephant in the house - and indeed, the Smith-Thompsons love Martin very much. But sometimes Martin plays the bagpipes terribly loudly. And falsely sings Russian romances under it. And he strives to smear jam on sandwiches with the help of a trunk, and rides on the gate, and demands to be washed in a bath with coconut foam, and sees hamster ghosts. And he also falls in love with the girl Dina with all his might, truly and forever, and decides to be her Knight and War Elephant. So do not flatter yourself, please: having a talking elephant in the house is completely, completely, not easy at all. Even if it is about the size of a cat.