My attempt to write about some of my current feelings regarding SFF in the aftermath of the recent explosion of somethingorother all over everything has produced a Horrifying Truth About Unicorns, so I'm just gonna... sit with that.
They are the sort of narrator who comes out with stuff like:
'Of course the thing about unicorns is that every single one of them is armed with a harpoon, and everyone just kind of waves that off to talk about purity and innocence. Nobody says, “You know, with ordinary antlers or horns you can make peace after a couple of headbutts and everyone goes on with their lives.” A unicorn can only fight to kill; they’re bloodyhearted creatures.'
so I am inclined to let them go on a bit.
(The anthology appears to be the one from 1982 edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois if it is the one that is in my house, according to our database, and the story titles look plausible. I was wrong about the tapestry though.)
(Though, strictly strictly, a harpoon is a spear on a rope, often with a detachable barbed head; the mental image is startling, applying the terminology to unicorns.)
I am not at all sure the narrator cares about that sort of precision. They might be pleased with the idea of being that sort of disconcerting, actually. That's the problem with eldritch horrors, even affable ones.
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'Of course the thing about unicorns is that every single one of them is armed with a harpoon, and everyone just kind of waves that off to talk about purity and innocence. Nobody says, “You know, with ordinary antlers or horns you can make peace after a couple of headbutts and everyone goes on with their lives.” A unicorn can only fight to kill; they’re bloodyhearted creatures.'
so I am inclined to let them go on a bit.
(The anthology appears to be the one from 1982 edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois if it is the one that is in my house, according to our database, and the story titles look plausible. I was wrong about the tapestry though.)
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(Though, strictly strictly, a harpoon is a spear on a rope, often with a detachable barbed head; the mental image is startling, applying the terminology to unicorns.)
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