“Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet no person is ever completely human. By ourselves, we people are simply balls of protoplasm. We… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Monsters’ can help us by giving a tangible form to our secret fears. It is less widely appreciated today that ‘wonders’ such as the unicorn legitimize our hopes. But all imaginary animals, to some degree all animals, are ultimately both monsters and wonders, which assist us by deflecting and absorbing our uncertainties . It is hard to tell ‘imaginary animals’… — Boria Sax Copy Share
“It is possible that the city of London was initially named for ravens or a raven-deity. According to the Oxford Companion to the English Language, the designation comes from “Londinium,” a Romanized version of an earlier Celtic name. But the word closely resembles “Lugdunum,” the Roman name for both the city of Lyon in France and Leiden in the Netherlands.… — Boria Sax Copy Share
“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“When an animal dies, another of the same species may cling to the body, eat the body, or look bored. Bees expel dead bodies… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Every animal is a tradition, and together they are a vast part of our heritage as human beings. No animal completely lacks humanity, yet… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Those who romanticize war often like to think of it, at least in areas of mortal peril, as nothing but “guts and glory.” Those… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“For the house of Dunraven, the ravens represented a spiritual claim to the Tower for the Celtic, especially the Welsh, people. For the English,… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
“Simply raising the theme of animals in the Third Reich means that our narrative is no longer only an account of what human beings… — Boria Sax Copy Share Image
