still stuck
Yeah. I'll bet if we employ all those FREEPERS who like to psychoanalyze complete strangers, they might come up with the following for Laotzu:
Word origin of word giraffe: French girafe and Italian giraffa is said to be a corruption of Arabic zirafah, although the term is meaningless in Arabic too... (http://www.edenics.net/english-word-origins.aspx?word=GIRAFFE)
Therefore, the "giraffe" is symbolic for Laotzu's religious void and meaninglessness in his life.