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December 19, 2018 - January 3, 2019
Ultimately, the problem comes down to umwelt; we are such prisoners of our subjective experience that it is only by force of will and imagination that we are able to take leave of it at all and consider the experience and essence of another creature—or even another person.
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The notion that it was animals who taught us to read may seem counterintuitive, but listening to skilled hunters analyze tiger sign is not that different from listening to literature majors deconstruct a short story.
The one certainty in tiger tracks is: follow them long enough and you will eventually arrive at a tiger, unless the tiger arrives at you first.
It is no coincidence that the rifle combines the elemental mastery of the shaman with the superhuman might of the hero.
WAITING FOR A TIGER TO ATTACK IS LIKE WAITING FOR A BOMB TO GO off.
