The Great Dane

Part One Saris

Part One

Saris

“They say that the hare of the nobler sex (i.e. the male) bears the little hares in its womb. Can it be that a bizarre nature has made him a hermaphrodite? They also say that in the mother’s womb, along with the tiny little hares, larger babies, previously conceived are carried; in this one can perceive an affront to the law of her inferior nature.

Effeminate men who violate that law of nature are thus said to imitate hares, offending against the highest majesty of nature. ”

—Alexander Neckam, encyclopedist and abbot