TRUE WEST
Amid all of them lives another species Homo sapiens, also crafty and dangerous, also accustomed to taking what it wants.
I'm never really surprised by timing anymore. That is, how things seem to fall in place in the right moment.
I was listening to True West, available Audible version, a couple of years ago of Betsy's book at the time of posting this memory.
And if you can believe it, it's at the very moment it came to the part where she spoke about our conversation in the books Coda, Last Voices. (I find instances like this to be incredibly fascinating)
The following paragraph, in an earlier chapter, struck a cord with me, speaking volumes in and of itself.
"Amid all of them lives another species Homo sapiens, also crafty and dangerous, also accustomed to taking what it wants."
"Unlike the others, this creature possess the formidable capacity to reconfigure perceived reality as abstraction, distort the abstraction into an ideal, then try to impose that ideal back on reality. In other words, to make myths."
TRUE WEST by Betsy Gaines Quammen, ch. 6, pg. 162, The Big Bad Wolf, Torrey House Press.