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“Great and terrible flesh eating beasts have always shared landscape with humans. They were part of the ecological matrix with which Homo sapiens evolved. They were a part of the psychological contect in which our sense of idenity as a species arose. They were part of the spiritual systems we invented for coping. The teeth of the predators, their claws, their ferocity and their hunger were grim realities that could be eluded but not forgotten. Every once in a while, a monstrous carnivore emerged like doom from a forest or a river to kill someone and feed on the body. It was a familiar sort of disaster -like auto fatalities today- that must have seemed freshly, shockingly gruesome each time, despite the familiarity. And it conveyed a certain message. Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”
www.amazon.com/Monster-God-Man-Eating-Predator-Jungles/dp/0393051404
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April 18, 2009 at 11:18 pm
I like this. That little guy reminds me of the Struwwelpeter.
April 18, 2009 at 11:57 pm
“Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”
Very cool.
April 19, 2009 at 12:16 am
Nice. That quote is awesome and I’m going to find this book. David Quammen… where have I heard that name before?
April 19, 2009 at 2:02 am
Already on my wish list.
April 19, 2009 at 6:42 am
That’s a goddamn shark in our watermill! Kill it with that lil’ Struwwelpeter!
April 19, 2009 at 10:00 am
I’m a shark!
I’m a shaark!
Suck my diiiiiick,
I’m eatin’ your Struwelpeter!
April 19, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Looks more like a barracuda to me. With that said…
You lying so low in the weed
I bet you gonna ambush me
You’d have me down, down, down on my knees
Now, wouldn’t you?
Barracuda!