Along the way she meets a talking butterfly who speaks mostly in songs or bizarre not-quite rhymes, a two headed demon, another demon, possibly, and a handful of people who want to capture her because she's a beautiful "horse."Īs I mentioned, this isn't the full story like I initially thought, so things get kind of put to a hault about midway though the journey. She doesn't quite believe, doesn't want to believe it, so she sets out on a journey to find others of her kind. The story, short as it is, is about a unicorn that learns she is the last unicorn in the world. There's possibly a touch of Monty Python or Mel Brooks to it as there were moments I felt like there jabs being made at modernity. The story is still picturesque and reminiscent of fairy tales or just fantasy stories. It still makes for an interesting read though. This is actually the early and unfinished draft of that story from what I gathered. Beagle that this wasn't the complete story that I only sort of knew from the animated movie. I didn't quite realize going into The Last Unicorn: The Lost Journey by Peter S. Unicorn on a road less traveled by.until now.
In-between the modern and mythological, lies the first path of the Last Yet wonderfully strange, lyrical and whimsical by turns. Discover a might-have-been journey, appealingly familiar Page genesis of The Last Unicorn, the equine heroine encounters aĬranky dragon, a chatty butterfly, and an exiled demon with a split Origin story of fantasy's most famous unicorn.
Now, alongsideīeagle's wry musings upon his early writing career, is the rediscovered Imagined his beloved unicorn at the age of twenty-three, five yearsīefore she would spring fully-realized into the world.
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