Here’s a post about centaur anatomy and diet, by Judith Tarr as you might expect, at tor.com.
I don’t want to give away Tarr’s answer to the question of how a human mouth could possibly manage to eat enough to power a big horse body.
Just click through and read the post yourself.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
You know, it’s been so long since I read Judith Tarr that I’ve forgotten whether I like her or not. This post has just decided me to find a book of hers and dive in.
Try that space opera of hers (Forgotten Suns). Then you can tell me whether I must move it to the top of my TBR pile immediately…
Off topic: for those with interest in Victoriana:
http://www.racked.com/2017/3/17/14914840/green-dye-history-death
Match and radium girls were not alone. Dying– and dyeing–for fashion!
“To this day, green dye has a bad reputation among seamstresses.” T_T
Thanks, Pete! I like green, but it’s so rarely available in clothing. That was enlightening, if also horrifying.