Marie2020
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I've gotten too much praise for this to not share it.
First, the comic
Then, my response (context: what we refer to as penguins now are in fact "false penguins". The original penguin was the Great Auk, which went extinct in 1844 [so, as a bonus, in Poe's lifetime])
"Though thou dress befits thy station,
and time thy lie has caused ablation,
Still, thou has but scant relation,
to that storied bird of yore,
Even if in name they par thee,
No close kin of Great Auk are thee;
By all rights; this fact should bar thee,
from that title and its lore.
But extinction hath removed, ,
thy namesake from the mortal shore;
Its name usurped, forevermore."
First, the comic
Then, my response (context: what we refer to as penguins now are in fact "false penguins". The original penguin was the Great Auk, which went extinct in 1844 [so, as a bonus, in Poe's lifetime])
"Though thou dress befits thy station,
and time thy lie has caused ablation,
Still, thou has but scant relation,
to that storied bird of yore,
Even if in name they par thee,
No close kin of Great Auk are thee;
By all rights; this fact should bar thee,
from that title and its lore.
But extinction hath removed, ,
thy namesake from the mortal shore;
Its name usurped, forevermore."
