Darwin continued. "He said to me, apropos of the wet snow, as Dostoyevsky would say, 'You know, Charles, I've been thinking: Animals get rid of animals when they don't want them in the herd any longer --'"
"--You mean like Simba?" Jean-Paul interrupted, picturing the Disney lion cub needing comeuppance.
"Please don't interrupt, but yes, I guess so, but minus the wildebeest stampede."
"Is that natural selection or imposition of the will to power?"
"Anyway," said Charles, ignoring his fellow explorer's gambit, "so Wilson continues, 'Humans are animals, therefore, humans should be able to drive away humans who are undesired."
"Isn't that what England did -- you know, the far flung thing? The tyranny of distance and the fatal shore?"
"'Preferably,' Darwin continued, 'humans driven away by animals.'"
"Interesting concept, Charles. Would you say wildebeests figure in that syllogism?"
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