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Sombelenë, a character from lord Dunsany's 1912 short story The Bride of the Man-Horse. The story itself is, shall we say, problematic to say the least, but I liked a lot of the descriptions."Her father had been half centaur and half god; her mother was the child of a desert lion and that sphinx that watches the pyramids;—she was more mystical than Woman.
Her beauty was as a dream, was as a song; the one dream of a lifetime dreamed on enchanted dews, the one song sung to some city by a deathless bird blown far from his native coasts by storm in Paradise. Dawn after dawn on mountains of romance or twilight after twilight could never equal her beauty; all the glow-worms had not the secret among them nor all the stars of night; poets had never sung it nor evening guessed its meaning; the morning envied it, it was hidden from lovers.
She was unwed, unwooed.
The lions came not to woo her because they feared her strength, and the gods dared not love her because they knew she must die."
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Comments: 2
Awesome drawing!
For me, it was kinda a question of whenever Dunsany wrote it in celebration of the Terrible Guy in the story or as a tragedy. I think it works alright as a tragic kind of story.
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