Bucharest, Romania

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“The Pelican of ordinary zoology is an aquatic fowl approximately six feet tall with a long, broad beak from whose lower jaw there hangs a reddish membrane forming a sort of sack or basket for holding fish; the Pelican of fable is smaller, and its beak is short and sharp. Faithful to its name, the plumage of the first is white; the feathers of the second are yellow, or sometimes green. Even more striking than its appearance are its habits. (…) Leonardo da Vinci’s bestiary defines the Pelican in the following way: This bears a great love to its young, and if it finds them slain in the nest by a serpent it pierces itself to the heart in their presence, and by bathing them with a shower of blood it restores them to life.” [Jorge Luis Borges, The Pelican, The Book of Imaginary Beings]