"Four Beasts in One" by Edgar Allan Poe

The Homo-Camelopard

Chacun a ses vertus
-Crébillon's-Xerxes

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The picture used is "Old male giraffe; Kariega Game Reserve, Eastern Cape, May 2016" by Goggins World, licensed for reuse under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)

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