Hee, I think the scarf for elephants is my personal weird idiolect, so no wonder you haven't heard it - it just seems to sum up that mental state for me at the very end of a draft, where I'm in vague despair and don't know if what I have made is a story or something endless (or a big loop, as you say!) and full of holes and weird threads sticking out and just...maybe an elephant could wear it? And usually it's not nearly as dire as all that, i just have no perspective at that time.

And I've no doubt whatsoever that your story is great and I look forward to reading it!