Tuesday, 24 September 2019
quote [ When the existence of unicorns, and the curative powers of the horns ascribed to them, began to be questioned, one Danish physician pushed back through curious means — by reframing the unicorn as an aquatic creature of the northern seas. Natalie Lawrence on a fascinating convergence of established folklore, nascent science, and pharmaceutical economy. ]
I have high unicorn tolerance
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zarathustra said @ 5:37am GMT on 24th Sep
I'm partial to the idea that the unicorn was just a conflation of travelers tails that combined the one horn Rhino with name of the hippo.
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