Mrs. Wilsons True Tales Retold

(corresponding to “Monsters Today...”) Because we live in a world that is largely man-made, in which our needs are fulfilled by intercession of a society that is the predominant reality of our lives, we are not aware how monstrous, irrational, unconscious are the forces that govern and surround us. We have forgotten the experience of being prey. The unexpected in our lives is an accident, and we think we should avoid them, if we are careful, if we are intelligent. But this is not so. We are yet the animal in the wilderness. Our predators surprise us.And while we like to believe that our capacity to control our lives is absolute, our own bodies, our own minds are like that wilderness in which our being, like animal, is vulnerable. We are stalked by what we cannot control; our natural frailty makes us its prey.