Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s 44 times Around the Sun and the Elephant in the Hat?

What about 44 times ... around the sun instead?-)

Saint-Exupéry dies at 44 in 1944?

I like how Saint-Exupéry starts his Little Prince story off by giving the example of the hat and tells his audience that it is not a hat, but a snake which has swallowed an elephant.

Then he offers his (metaphorically blind) readers his metaphorical hat of a story to ponder over:-) 

So, what's your take on the elephant in the hat?-)

And why leave the drunkard out of the filmed versions of the story I wonder?

Homecoming/The Little Prince?

Home is where the hat is, don't they say?-)