Oltre La Fine del Mondo

"The mighty peaceful beast / their long horns streaming backwords over their raised necks, the large loose flaps of breast skin that make them look square, swaying as they jog. They seem to have come out of an old Egyptian epitaph."

"I had time after time watched the progression across the plain of the giraffe, in their queer, inimitable, vegetative gracefulness as if it were not a herd of animals but a family of rare, long stemmed spackled gigantic flowers slowly advancing. It was, in giant size, the border of a very old, infinitely precious Persian carpet in the dyes of green, yellow and black-brown."

Karen Blixen