Autobiography of an horse rearrangement
The horse as litterateur is an obvious and ripe subject for serious inquiry. Space limitations, alas, preclude a full exegesis of the roman à clop, so a brisk lap around the track will have to suffice.
Over the course of equine evolution, horses have had to overcome enormous obstacles to verbal and written communication.
Over the course of equine evolution, horses have had to overcome enormous obstacles to verbal and written communication.
Black Beauty; the Autobiography of a Horse - Anna Sewell ...
Verbal skill first manifest itself during the s with the discovery of a talking mule within the U.S. Armed Forces stationed in the Pacific during World War II who acted as aide-de-camp for a hapless Marine lieutenant. The story was broken in a documentary:
The mule later died of a broken heart because he was only half horse, the lieutenant had standards, and any further relationship was out of the question.
With Frances died the only prospect for conversation with a verbally precocious equine.
But a generation later another verbally-gifted horse would be born, anonymously sired and unrelated to the talking mule, thus exciting contemporary evolutionary thought wi Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse - SUVU