Houyhnhnm head
Artefact
Lord Snatch’s wearable horse head: jaws, disguise and portable Houyhnhnm dignity, such as it is.
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- Houyhnhnm represents (1 passage)
From the books (3 passages)
…giggling sorority infesting those waters, when he was forestalled by a hand upon his shoulder. Prising back the houyhnhnm jaws, he found himself peering into a pair of eyes behind which no recognisably human intelligence had ever dwelt.
…Lord Snatch, bare of leg and with upper half as yet encased in houyhnhnm head, passed through this milieu as entirely unremarkable.
…A door opened mouthfully, then, and choked up Snatch, clutching the houyhnhnm head, which he hastily put on. Onanisticles the Scagsmith approaching nigh this personage as vassal that doth petition bear unto his Sovereign Lord cringing both and creeping according as it be his allotted function in the polity - nasty to be and to make shudder burgesses - there ensued exchange between this pair; whereof, inasmuch as it did…