A plastic primate sits on a shelf. Atop a tall bookcase perches an antique ice ax. If nothing else, these curios testify to the altitude of Gamow's imagination. You just have to follow your nose a little bit. Although there are no reindeer at his home in Canon Park he does own a snow-white Arabian stallion, Pegasus, which he rides at midnight.
Horses are the only animals that have a mane, a flowing mane.
But a flowing mane. And a flowing tail. And genetically born to be rideable. They're a magical animal. Up until the age of 50, there was nothing in my laboratory that was practical.