“I'm a g-nu,
I'm a g-nu,
The g-nicest work of g-nature in the zoo”
Michael Flanders (1922–1975) English writer and performer
A Gnu
“Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.”
— Margaret Atwood, book Oryx and Crake
Source: Oryx and Crake
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