Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson for November 29, 2018

https://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2016/11/27

Marigold should try opera.

♪♫ You’rrrrre… so vain… I bet you think this strip is about you, don’t you? Don’t you? ♪♫

Maybe your voice gets stuck in your head because it’s already in there.

UNICORN!!

We have something in common.

My voice is stuck in my head too!

For the same reason you can’t stop watching your reflex on water.

I read this somewhere; can anyone verify it? Dana Simpson said that if there ever were an animated series (I wish!), she would like to have Jane Krakowski as the voice of Marigold.

There’s an old cliche’ in music that the human voice is the most versatile of all instruments. So imagine what a unicorn voice must be!

Tone Deaf – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVHGvReyRfY

Some linguists have considered that we might have sung to each other when we spoke originally.

I’ve heard that, too. If they’re correct, then opera is—in form, if not in the specific languages it’s now sung in—essentially the original form of human communication (without instrumental accompaniment, of course, although…I can see how drums and clapsticks could have been incorporated early on, perhaps by people with weak or otherwise non-melodious voices, to augment the emotional impact of what they sang).