The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle; Peter Gillis; Renae Deliz; Ray Dillon

Author:Peter S. Beagle; Peter Gillis; Renae Deliz; Ray Dillon
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy
ISBN: 9781600108518
Publisher: Idea & Design Works Llc
Published: 1968-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

"No, it never thinks that," the magician agreed. "That's why it goes on being a rhinoceros and will never be welcome even at Haggard's court. But a young girl, a girl to whom it can never mean anything that she is not a rhinoceros—such a girl, while the king and his son seek to solve her, might unravel her own riddle until she comes to its end. Rhinoceri are not questing beasts, but young girls are."

The sky was hot and curdled; the sun had already melted into a lion-colored puddle; and on the plain of Hagsgate nothing stirred but the stale, heavy wind. The naked girl with the flower-mark on her forehead stared silently at the green-eyed man, and the woman watched them both. In the tawny morning, King Haggard's castle seemed neither dark nor accursed, but merely grimy, rundown, and poorly designed. Its skinny spires looked nothing like a bull's horns, but rather like those on a jester's cap. Or like the horns of a dilemma, Schmendrick thought. They never have just two.

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