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• Today

  Lore of the Unicorn (4): Tertium Quid

  I think it will be instructive, before proceeding, to look carefully at a few correspondences I have received regarding the study of unicorns which we have undertaken, in order to get a sense for the universal flavor of the dialectic which always accompanies this topic.

  The first of these arrives from one Professor Dimirti Apostolopouli of the Johns Hopkins Department of Robotics. He writes:

  Dear Sir,

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• 1 week

  Lore of the Unicorn (3): Gall and Ankle-bones

  Setting aside the matter of bronies and anti-bronies, the book continues with a brief summary of the life of Cstesias, an ancient Greek physician who will play an important role in the birth of the unicorn in the European imagination. For, as it turns out, the mystery of unicorns “[leaves] a wide field for speculation and [surrounds] even the facts of which we are certain with bands of twilight…”

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• 2 weeks

  Lore of the Unicorn (2): Taylorism Saves the Day

  Before we embark on any further essays to fathom the unicorn—and seeing as we have remarked the work of one of its chroniclers, Odell Shepard, as being also the work of the first brony, and therefore parallel to our own work in the present time—it may be worthwhile to observe its countercurrent in the twentieth century; namely, that before Howard Stern and Mike Nelson, there was already an ‘anti-brony’ in the person of noted futurist Henry Ford, whose entrepreneurial success, however

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