Strange & Unusual References Home

JUMP TO PAGE
Previous Page
~ END OF PREVIEW ~


We hope you have enjoyed this fully-illustrated e-book preview of A Field Guide to Identifying Unicorns by Sound.  To read more, see the "Search Inside" feature at Amazon.com.


Buy Now from Amazon.com
Listen for these joyful sounds: Hip Heee Frr Frr and Bree-hee-hee. The distinctive, joyful neigh of a unicorn -- hip heee frr frr -- is described by Umberto Eco in Baudolino (2000): she said o my god now how will we make the unicorn come and just then I heard a voice from Heaven said that the unicorn qui tollis peccata mundis was me and I started jumping around the bushes and crying hip heee frr frr because I was happier than a real unicorn because I had put my horn in the virgin's lap and this was why Saint Baudolino had called me son et setera but then he forgave me and I caught site of him other times but only if there is plenty of fog or if it isnt bright like to scorch everything. What do the joyful neighs of a unicorn mean, exactly? In his philosophical essay "The Crown" (1914), the great English writer D. H. Lawrence transcribed "the voice of the unicorn crying in the
Next Page