Wild oats

Did you know …

That for a year and a half in Stephen Hawking’s mid twenties, he ate only horse meat? It’s true.

The horse’s name was Napoleon, and the physicist described him as “a dear, dear childhood friend . . . as well as my greatest enemy.” He said of the experience, “it was perhaps the greatest challenge of my young adulthood, the greatest honor, and an ingredient I never once tired of, not even when the frozen gelatin of his hooves was all that remained of wild Napoleon. Huzzah, Napoleon, huzzah and victory. Clomp clomp, chomp chomp, you son of a bitch.”