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“Yes, those are bits—or bare suggestions—of a horse grafted onto
something else.” The seahorse was pensive. “But entire imitation
horses also exist, frozen in a pose. An example is the rocking horse.”

“I suppose that motion contributes to an illusion of reality. On a
larger scale, carousel horses do that, too,” pointed out the sawhorse.
“But the biggest of all such contraptions was the Trojan horse. After
all, the illusion it created was not of movement—it did have
wheels—but that it was completely hollow and empty.”