Pablo Picasso "Minotaur caressing a sleeping woman"



Description of the Minotaur from Stephen Fry's book "Heroes. Mankind and Monsters":

 "A huge head, sharp horns. The neck expanded at the base, lower - human shoulders, a chest covered with either hair like hair, or hair like hair; the rest of the body was overgrown with the same. A hefty dick dangled between the legs , almost to the very hooves that beat and scraped stone slabs. From the snout hung a long rein of drool.

Further sad: “Theseus was shocked to realize what seemed strange to him in the roar of the monster. It imitated the rhythms of human speech: the Minotaur tried to speak, but the bullish vocal cords with which he was born were not adapted for the necessary sounds. The bull-man tried to squeeze out a new sound, which the ear of Theseus heard as "Know-and-I! Know how-and-I!". And then Theseus realized - the monster asks: "Kill me."

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