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...Game Hunter Willy Ley* has returned from safari. Having tracked his prey through the dank undergrowth of large public libraries, he has put his trophies on exhibition in a newly published book, The Lungfish, the Dodo and the Unicorn (Viking...
...Ley calls his book "an excursion into romantic zoology." It is a lighthearted excursion. A man of deep zoological faith, Ley believes that animal myths are based on actual fact, and that many fearful and wonderful creatures, undreamed of (and unlisted) by more unromantic zoologists, may still roam the earth...
Gentle Unicorn. The unicorn, King of (nonexistent) Beasts, was reputed to be a graceful, strong animal that could not be taken by force. But like the "gentil knights" of the troubadours' verses, it would lay its head in a virgin's lap. A pity, says Ley, to believe that the unicorn is only an ugly rhinoceros, dimly and distantly seen. Perhaps the noble beast had a pleasanter prototype. Modern scientists know, Ley points out, that the horn buds of a calf can be transplanted to the middle of its forehead, where they develop together into a "unicorn" (single...
Evil Kraken. Another mythical beast, says Ley, has really come to life: the kraken, a gigantic octopus that flourished in the imagination of medieval Scandinavians. Evidence has been accumulating, he says, to prove that there are several species of giant squid or octopus which come to the surface only rarely. Ley thinks that Scylla, of the Odyssey, must have been a kraken, with her six toothy necks reaching out of a sea cave. So was Medusa, with her "snakes" (octopus arms) writhing around her face...
...road, by the story the cops told later, one of the gunmen asked for a moment's halt, and everyone got out of the car. Then, the police solemnly reported, somebody jostled somebody else, and the three prisoners started to run. Then, in line with the traditional ley de fuga (shot while trying to escape), they were killed in their tracks...