imaginary beasts
geez! I think I encountered them in my reading before school, the centaur, for instance, the cyclops, the unicorn, the gryphon, the satyr, the pegasus, the minotaur. (no wonder I hated run dick run!) scylla, charybdis, the firebird, mermaids. of course, one of the best things about them was knowing about them when other people didn't. or later, finding someone who did! wow, it was almost like having a secret friend! and they weren't just there for my little-kid reading, they showed up again in the fantasies of my adolescent years, and those of my oughtabe-a-grownup years. heck, some of them even show up in my poems now.
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