Teodora

“The city, great cemetery of the animal Kingdom, was closed, aseptic, over the final buried corpses with their last fleas and their last germs. Man had finally re-established the order of the world which he had himself upset. (…) At least that is what Theodora’s inhabitants believed, far from imagining that a forgotten fauna was stirring from its lethargy. (…) Sphinxes, griffons, chimeras, dragons, hircocervi, harpies, hydras, unicorns, basilisks were resuming possession of their city.”