Watcher in the Shadows
“Pride, probably. One can never quite escape from one’s ancestors. Old Cunobel understood that. But there was a perverted common sense in it, too. The police admitted afterwards that if I had continued to live my normal life —and since I had to work to eat, what else could I do? — they would not have been able to protect me.
Ian Parrow saw the position as that of a hunter who is trying to protect some terrified native village from a man-eater. It is no use to cordon the place and post a rifle up every tree. The man-eater simply observes the whole preparation — tempering its disappointment with contempt — and goes away until everyone is sick of the whole business. Then it returns.
In my case there was no one to protect except myself, terrified enough, God knows, for an entire village. But the principle was the same. I had to hunt the poor brute down alone, on foot and on horse, and give him every chance to show himself.
Since the late nineteen-forties I have earned an obscur...e but very satisfying living as a zoologist, specializing in the life cycles of the smaller European mammals.MoreLess
Ian Parrow saw the position as that of a hunter who is trying to protect some terrified native village from a man-eater. It is no use to cordon the place and post a rifle up every tree. The man-eater simply observes the whole preparation — tempering its disappointment with contempt — and goes away until everyone is sick of the whole business. Then it returns.
In my case there was no one to protect except myself, terrified enough, God knows, for an entire village. But the principle was the same. I had to hunt the poor brute down alone, on foot and on horse, and give him every chance to show himself.
Since the late nineteen-forties I have earned an obscur...e but very satisfying living as a zoologist, specializing in the life cycles of the smaller European mammals.MoreLess
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