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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