Man Seeking Woman's Simon Rich wrote a tragic autobiography of Paul Revere's horse
The halls of history are littered with once-important people whose contributions have become forgotten by time, much like how Chewbacca didn’t get a medal after the Battle Of Yavin, but The New Yorker has tried to rectify this for one historical figure by publishing an “autobiographical” piece from the perspective of Oatsy, the horse Paul Revere used for his famous Midnight Ride. The essay was actually written by Simon Rich, the creator of Man Seeking Woman, but you might not even realize it was penned by a human thanks to the elegant use of a realistically horse-like syntax. For example, here’s how the piece begins:
Growing up horse, I do not expect much from life. My ten older brothers all end up in stable. My sisters become glue.
From there, we learn about how Oatsy met Paul Revere, a regular guy from Boston who is “easy to carry,” and how the two of them shared the same dream of leaving a “big mark on world.” Then, one day, Oatsy heard that the British were coming and convinced Revere to help him tell everyone: