Jungle Moods
HORT of direct contradictions like love and hate there seems to be no limit to the emotional alliances which may be found in the heart. While susceptibility to beauty is not always allied with compassion it is not strange that a big game hunter like "Pop" Calcutt should resent the death of a mother gazelle snatched from its young by a boa constrictor. The big game hunter is, in fact, thrown open to impressions of grace and strength in a way that others are not, and unless he is extraordinarily ke@n there must sufely come times when the hunter is at bay and the potential aesthete comes to life. In an otherwise interesting 3YA series (Big Game Hunter), in which the informal approach made it like a fireside disctission, I thought it an error of taste to have included the ofe on the pros and cons of why Major Calcutt was alwavs excited when confronted with a tiger but completely cool and impersonal whén carrying out a _ soldier’s prime duty: :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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172Jungle Moods New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 742, 2 October 1953, Page 10
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