Simeon is very much taken with mythological beasts ending in “-taur.” The other day, out of deep contemplation, he suddenly said, “I bet centaurs have to eat a lot, because they have to feed their human part and their horse part.” Something I’d never actually considered, but I’m sure he’s right.
Now Sim has created a new –taur beast, modeled after the legendary Minotaur. He calls it the Marmotaur: head of a bull, body of a marmot. A marmot, for those not in the know, is a largish (for a squirrel) member of the squirrel family. I don’t know if a Marmotaur has a larger-than-usual body for a marmot (otherwise, how could it support a bull’s head?), but the Marmotaur is apparently an extremely dangerous beast.
[If I were a more skilled computer user, I’d take one of our many marmot pictures from our Yellowstone trip last year and splice in a bull’s head. But you’ll just have to imagine it yourselves, because I’m not that awesome, and I don’t have the time to learn to be that awesome right now, either.]
In any case, Simeon now invents new mythological feats that the great and terrible Marmotaur has done. Maybe the next generation will pass along Marmotaur legends, or threaten their children with reprisals from the Marmotaur, should they misbehave.
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