Horses frighten me as much as chickens do, ’ he said.‘ That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress, ’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

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In the short story, “The Centaur,” by Spanish writer George Orwell, a man is terrified of horses. He repeats this sentence to a man who is trying to convince him that he should learn to ride a horse. The man, Abrenuncio, tells the terrified man that if communicating with horses ever becomes possible, mankind will have reached a new level in its development.

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