Quote from Schoppenhauer: “Junghung tolds there has seen an immense field entirely covered with skeletons and took it to be a battlefield. However they were nothing but skeletons of large turtles, five feet long, three feet broad and of equal weight. These turtles come this way from the sea, in order to lay their eggs and are then seized by wild dogs; with their united strength, these dogs lay them on their backs, tear open their lower armour, the small scales of the belly and devour them alive. But then a tiger often pounces on the dogs. Now all this misery is repeated thousands and thousands of times, year in, year out. For this then, are these turtles burn. For what offence must the suffer this agony? What is the point of the whole scene of horror? The only answer is that the will-to-live thus objectifies itself.”
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