The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

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51 points | by Petiver 8 days ago ago

11 comments

  • djmips 2 days ago ago

    I'm getting Animorph book cover vibes. https://imgur.com/gallery/all-animorphs-covers-FiRN1nt

  • echelon 2 days ago ago

    The title made me think of this:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ivanov

    • vee-kay 2 days ago ago

      Title topic of "human animal hybrid" and fantastic artwork on the linked site reminded me of the shocking-but-thrilling classic book "The Island of Doctor Moreau", the 1896 science fiction novel, by famous English author H. G. Wells. Terrific and terrifying read for that era, and even later.

      • amy_petrik 21 hours ago ago

        Also see that great '80s movie with "Iceman" from Top Gun aka Val Kilmer and that creepy dude from Apocalypse Now aka Marlon Brando together in an '80s remake of The Isle. That particular movie seems to have fallen off the radar despite hiring the big names of the time; a bit of a flop

      • clort 2 days ago ago

        Also, see "Moreau's Other Island" by Brian Aldiss, an updated version of the classic. I found H.G.Wells writing to be very dated, not that Aldiss is current (published 1980) but I think it is biologically more plausible..

        • michaelsmanley 2 days ago ago

          Oddly enough, I happen to be reading this book right now (though my edition is titled "An Island Called Moreau"). I had just finished re-reading Wells and Silvia Moreno Garcia's "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau" (a re-telling of the story set in colonial Mexico), and thought I'd try Aldiss's version. I am still trying to decide if he wrote it as a satire or not.

      • colechristensen 2 days ago ago

        Indeed The Island of Doctor Moreau was one of the more disturbing books I've ever read.

    • 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 2 days ago ago

      I was thinking of this human-dog hybrid art

      https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-young-family/

    • therealdkz 2 days ago ago

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