One day, a sentence once quoted fleetingly to me sprang to mind. It came from Saul Bellow’s Henderson The Rain King. My memory had stored the words intact, and something had decided that it would be useful for me to be reminded of them: ‘Mankind as a whole… is tired of itself and needs a shot in the arm from animal nature.’
Wasn’t this my quest? And didn’t transforming yourself into a human crocodile amount to getting a shot in the arm from animal nature? The act would be a statement of personal commitment to life forces in general, and it was a commitment that I felt I needed.
Into the Crocodile Nest
