Sublime

C'est extraordinaire à quel point les bêtes se sentent seules dans un deux-pièces du grand Paris et combien elles ont besoin de quelqu'un à aimer. Je ne pouvais pas jeter ça dans la gueule d'un python affamé par simple égard pour les lois de la nature. Je

Then, in 1962, the Scottish ecologist V. C. Wynne-Edwards, a careful observer of his country’s native red grouse, concluded that these birds sometimes sacrificed their reproductive privileges to keep their flock from starvation. The grouse, Wynne-Edwards contended, gauged the amount of food the moors could provide each year and adjusted their behav

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story The Man of the Crowd.

Our first instinct with words is to label and sort.

The most fundamental difference was that in Africa I was a member of a family—of a sort of family that the people of your culture haven’t known for thousands of years. If gorillas were capable of such an expression, they would tell you that their family is like a hand, of which they are the fingers. They are fully aware of being a family but are ve

Often, for women, the focus of such a fantasy is on the size of the animal’s penis or, more generally, the “animalistic” nature of the beast’s desire. We think about “animal” passion as an intense passion that doesn’t obey social rules or restraints. It is pure sex, its crucial ingredient being that there is no pretense of an exchange between two c

Your life is unique in the whole of history.

Those old wild images included a crucial truth. Man is a monster. And he is all the more a monster because one part of him is perfect.