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Shaw insisted on regarding this patently special case of his own contriving as the type for sexual relationships in the real world; on maintaining as the order of existence that women initiate such relationships and men are "the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey"; on reiterating that what we are accustomed to think of as love, or infatuation, or lust, according to the circumstances or our temperament, is really God or Nature or the Life Force making purposeful experiments in eugenics. But this can be dismissed as another example of Shaw's tendency to exaggerate, to generalize...
...London Times was swamped with letters from outraged bunny lovers. Some of the loudest objectors were fox hunters. In the absence of their preferred prey, ravenous British foxes turned to moles, rats, blackberries and garbage cans. They lost the stamina they used to build up chasing rabbits, no longer led hunters off on the long, steady chases of old. Instead, they developed a tendency to head for the nearest suburb, leaving hunters embarrassedly clattering through backyards and garbage dumps. Another curious side effect: British buzzards, deprived of protein once obtained from rabbit carrion, suffered loss of fertility...
...some consternation." But the Rangers pushed on, slogged for nine straight days through a vast spruce bog. Sacking the Indian town was comparatively easy, but the journey back to Crown Point was harrowing. The corn supply quickly ran out, and the Rangers, split into small hunting parties, were easy prey to the aroused Indians. At one point, faint with hunger, a detachment of Rangers found the bodies of comrades butchered by the Indians, and ate them raw. Rogers, as usual, survived (49 others died) and commented simply: "I had the good fortune to succeed...
...three months black-gowned agents loitered over Armand's bookstalls, in the Paris suburbs of Fontenay-sous-Bois, watching their prey. Others, pretending to collect alms in the neighborhood, used minicameras to photograph his visitors. D.S.T. men with movie cameras filmed his regular rendezvous with another man in Paris' lonely Rue Botzaris. They noticed that before each clandestine meeting he chalked the letter k on a nearby wall...
...psyche has fallen prey to its own drive for security. In protecting itself against the elements, against the harsh rule of nature, it has allowed itself to be ruled by its very safety devices...