The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the u…

Julian Barnes
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The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining. ✨ Julian Barnes (2010). A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters, p.28, Random House
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The rainbow in place of the unicorn? Why didn't God just restore the unicorn? We animals would have been happier with that, instead of a big hint in the sky about God's magnanimity every time it stopped raining. ✨ Julian Barnes (2010). A History Of The World In 10 1/2 Chapters, p.28, Random House

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