tiger: you don’t go around making people laugh at things. it’s a big, serious world out there; nothing to laugh about. not ever. you must teach the children to fear, teach them to tremble. teach them to be cruel. teach them to be the danger in the dark. hide in the shadows, then pounce or spring or leap or drop, and always kill. you know what the true meaning of life is?

fat charlie: um, is it love one another?

tiger: the meaning of life is the hot blood of your prey on your tongue, the meat that rends beneath your teeth, the corpse of your enemy left in the sun for the carrion eaters to finish. that is what life is.

fat charlie did not want to be in that place, talking to tiger. it was not that tiger was mad; it was that he was so earnest in his convictions, and all his convictions were uniformly unpleasant.

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