At the Mercy of the Beasts, by Fernando Savater

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To you, that nothing without too much garbo at a reasonable distance from the beach, would you like to be able to caress a great white shark by the way? Say yes, to me too. Without suffering the consequences, of course. We would like to rub against that terrible sea beast, but whenever it behaves like a docile kitten. The great beasts attract us as gods of the past, they excite us, but they also terrify us. Bruce Chatwin wrote that it was the ha…