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Vampire, whole no. 8, December 1946
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The Centaur: Biological Impossibility by Kenneth J. Krueger Picture in your mind's eye a peaceful pasture, where green grasses wave gently in the morning breeze, soft, billowy clouds float lazily overhead, and the bushes that are scattered over the entire scene murmur softly whenever the breeze rustles their tender branches. In the center of all this stands a creature -- a monstrosity -- a biological impossibility -- for he is part man, and part horse. At first glance you are stricken with his beauty, as the sun gleams on his golden brown flanks and lovely human head. Then you start to wonder; you wonder how he can live, with his two hearts, and dual stomachs. And with that wonder the picture will always fade from your mind, for the centaur and all his kind are but part of a daydream that started with some ancient Greek who, in his battles with the tribes of barbarians from the North, saw a man mounted on a horse for the first time, and thought that the two were fused. So, it was probably the warped and frightened imagination of an ignorant soldier that started one of the most persistent legends of all time. That is the logical explanation, but not the one that the boys like Bullfinch would have you believe. The mythology experts can't seem to agree just how the first centaur came into being. One would have it that a chap named Ixion and a lady name Nephele were very much surprised
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The Centaur: Biological Impossibility by Kenneth J. Krueger Picture in your mind's eye a peaceful pasture, where green grasses wave gently in the morning breeze, soft, billowy clouds float lazily overhead, and the bushes that are scattered over the entire scene murmur softly whenever the breeze rustles their tender branches. In the center of all this stands a creature -- a monstrosity -- a biological impossibility -- for he is part man, and part horse. At first glance you are stricken with his beauty, as the sun gleams on his golden brown flanks and lovely human head. Then you start to wonder; you wonder how he can live, with his two hearts, and dual stomachs. And with that wonder the picture will always fade from your mind, for the centaur and all his kind are but part of a daydream that started with some ancient Greek who, in his battles with the tribes of barbarians from the North, saw a man mounted on a horse for the first time, and thought that the two were fused. So, it was probably the warped and frightened imagination of an ignorant soldier that started one of the most persistent legends of all time. That is the logical explanation, but not the one that the boys like Bullfinch would have you believe. The mythology experts can't seem to agree just how the first centaur came into being. One would have it that a chap named Ixion and a lady name Nephele were very much surprised
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