Sunday, December 13, 2009

Beater

Someone employed to beat the bushes and flush out animals for hunters.

"But then I also had to take into account the fact that I have a voice within me repeating, I want, raving and demanding, making a chaos, desiring, desiring, and disappointed continually, which drove me forth as beaters drive game. So I had no business to make terms with life, but had to accept such conditions as it would let me have."

Saul Bellow, Henderson The Rain King (1958).

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