The Lady and the Unicorn: Hosting the Stranger

Who is the Unicorn and who is the Lady? What if we were to read the Lady as host and the Unicorn as guest? Not as a guest in any ordinary sense but as a stranger who comes from afar and may be received with either hostility or hospitality? In such a scenario, the Lady would be making a wager, taking a risk that this hybrid creature, often maligned as monster or demon in former literature, is an alien to be welcomed to her tent of desire….

“‘Goodbye’, said the fox, ‘and now here is my secret, a very simple secret: it is only with the heart that one can see rightly.’”