The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will b… - Alexander Chee

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The animal will be tender with you, and you with it, but the animal never forgets that when what it wants for survival requires your death, it will become unafraid to kill you. And so you cannot forget this, either. It is, on reflection, good training to be a courtesan. A woman of any kind.