Tuesday, December 16, 2008

The Law of Meat

“The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten. The law was: Eat or Be Eaten. He (White Fang) did not formulate the law in clear, set terms and moralize about it. He did not even think the law; he merely lived the law without thinking about it at all. The world was a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless."

----"White Fang"

Jack London