Centaurine innards

[desperance]

Okay, look. I'm quite happy with one digestive system that has two separate stomachs en route, there are instances of that and stranger things; but are we to suppose that a centaur has two sets of ribs, human and horse, and - therefore? - two sets of lungs within 'em? Skeletally, see, I think they must; and you'd need horsey lungs, I'd guess, to power a horsey body. Which would imply two hearts also, unless the human half just didn't bother with a heart, because the horsey one was good enough for all; I'm okay with that either way, I just have trouble with the lungs thing. Only one intake-pipe, after all: does the poor girl have to breathe for two, great vasty draughts of air...? Or if she just has one set of horsey lungs, what's in the human chest cavity...?

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Oh lor', is it...?

*blushes, and retires from the field*

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Were you John Norman you'd have no problem imagining increased lung capacity

[leer]

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Y'know, the first time I read 'Brave New World' (and can this be the first time those two writers have ever been brought together in a single thought?), I really didn't understand what Huxley meant when he kept describing his young women as 'pneumatic'...

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

Please, take those two writers apart again. Please.