June 24th, 2008
Speaking of unicorns, my wife and I have been rereading a number of books from our childhoods, including the Chronicles of Narnia and the Time Quartet (A Wrinkle In Time, etc) and having a disagreement about something, specifically this: In A Swiftly Tilting Planet, we are introduced to a unicorn named Gaudior. In The Last Battle, we are introduced to a unicorn named Jewel. Gaudior comes from heaven and can fly. Jewel spends a lot of time making out with King Tirian, and also is an oblique symbol for the Anglican presumption of England as the new Jerusalem. Oh, but Gaudior is here to stop nuclear war with the power of love and ESP. With all of this being said, here is the issue about which my wife and I have reached an irreconcilable disagreement:
Poll #1210222
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 65
Poll #1210222
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 65
Which is unicorn is more irredeemably fey?
View Answers
Gaudior![]()
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5 (7.7%)
Jewel![]()
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7 (10.8%)
Both are equally fey![]()
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3 (4.6%)
We're all irredeemably fey for answering a poll about unicorns in the first place![]()
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30 (46.2%)
Also what is up with all the unicorns in fantasy novels? And the centaurs? Let's see some hippocampi and boggarts up in this piece, son!![]()
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20 (30.8%)
I got this in a care package from Laura Dinkins-White and her hubby, RJ Dinkins-White. There were other things in the package, but who cares, because you know what this painting is saying to the other things in the package? "Fuck them" is what it's saying. "I am awesome."
(PS: They also sent a DVD copy of The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. I'm not sure what they think we don't have in Washington, but I believe that might be the sum total of it)
(PS: They also sent a DVD copy of The Boy In The Plastic Bubble. I'm not sure what they think we don't have in Washington, but I believe that might be the sum total of it)

