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Crusades of Chimeras

  Crusades of Chimeras We, humans, have a very unique ability of "Envisaging". This ability of ours has turned out to be not just omnipotent but its far-reaching prospects have persevered the functioning of the body and the soul as one. In Greek mythology, the Chimera was a fearsome fire-breathing monster with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a dragon's tail. According to the fable, lobates, the king of Lycia, had commanded Bellerophon to kill the Chimera(who had been unleashing its wrath all over the city), since he thought Chimera would instead kill Bellerophon "as it was a dauntless and unassailable creature". Yet the hero mounted his winged horse Pegasus and soaring high and high with one single arrow he shot down the Chimera. In colloquial language and in the worlds of words, Chimera is also used to refer to imaginative, implausible, or dazzling contemplations of ours. Lost in our reverie, and engrossed in our capacious castles built in the air we ...