If the keepers of the sacred corral discovered paternity in their stock breeding, then that knowledge would have been seen as numinous, awe-ful, and unconsciously unsettling.

Son. Was ever son so rued a father’s death? Father. Was ever father so bemoan’d his son?

How liberating might this notion be today if the playing field weren’t Walmarted with too-big-to-fail megacorporations and oligopolies.

What are you trying to pull, anyway? You say you want to sell, but you have nothing to offer?! You've got some nerve, kid!