Set (deity) or a fennec fox. The animal has a curved snout, long rectangular ears, a thin forked tail and canine body, with sprouted fur tufts in an inverted arrow shape; sometimes, Set is depicted as a human with the distinctive head. Some early Egyptologists proposed that it was a stylised representation of the giraffe, owing to the large flat-topped "horns" which correspond to a giraffe's ossicones. The Egyptians themselves, however, made a distinction between the giraffe and the Set animal. During the Late Period, Set is depicted as a donkey or as having a donkey's head. The earliest representations of what
Giraffe (novel) if Radiohead's 'Idioteque' had mixed with something by Haruki Murakami." The "New York Times" critic was "continually reminded of Harold Bloom's remark about all great books being strange." According to one of the novel's publishers, Penguin Press, ""Giraffe" marks the debut of an unforgettable talent... At once vivid and unearthly, "Giraffe" is a meditation on suffering, on the strangeness of vertical creatures, and on the inhabitants of a middling totalitarian state, sleepwalking through the ‘communist moment’." Giraffe (novel) Giraffe is a debut novel by Scottish writer J. M. Ledgard. "Giraffe" is based on a true Czechoslovakian story, which Ledgard discovered