As a writer, even if an amature, I'll admit that you have a way with your writing that presents a most interesting concept, even if I do not personally agree with it.  I presume that you do not want someone blindly agreeing with your idea, but instead, examine it, devour what is good about it, and leave what cannot be digested - it is what a Gnoll would do.

What can be digested, digest the hell out of it, and leave the offal and continue to hunt, looking ever for the prey that you can catch, and always being hungry for the thrill of the hunt, and the wonderful taste of that meat.  

What you presented in this book is not nessisarily a literal 'go back to basics', but more: "Do not be satisified with the status quo, for tomorrow will bring something that will kill a lazy hunter".  More than this, I read Meat to mean something worthy of catching.  Small ideas are good, and setting traps for our prey works, but if we do not exercise our ability to hunt down our prey, we will forget there was any reason to, and simply mindlessly graze on ideas that do not require exertion.

This, this I agree with.

Meat is a concept; the large ideas, the achievable goals that challenge us, but are not completely beyond our reach, the worrying about Now, and letting tomorrow worry about itself; to train the young to be the hunters of ideas, of joy, of learning the thrill of the chase, and tracking down something, even if we have to spend days.  The hungrier we get, the more the taste of its flesh will sate us, and the more strength we shall have to catch the next idea, to teach our young, and to find and fuck a worthy mate.  Meat is more than flesh, it is the concept, that we may be omnivores of flesh, but our minds are predatory.  We may graze a moment on lighter things, but we are starving for the raw idea of hunting, of not being easilly satisified by the low, rotten fruit, but the ones higher, that are still ready for our teeth to sink into, that require us to climb higher.

This, I like.  It is something I will have to take to myself, and my attitude.  It made me realize I am starving, because I keep hunting, and never finding the prey, or it always eludes me.  I have not been hungry enough to catch what I have wanted, and now, like a cub, I run out and look to sink my teeth into its jugular, even if it kills me.

This, I believe, is the entire concept of the book.  Be the predator, not the prey, tell the larger lions to fuck off, because they may be large, but they are lazy on their largeness.

Thank you for the book.

I do not agree to everything, but I agree to the concept.  It was delicious, and the taste of fresh blood sated me.

Also, someone who actually understands that Hyenas are the most badass animal in africa really makes me smile.  The fact they have incredible pain tollerance, an over-arcing pack structure that's more than 'Bein' fed, fuckin' bitches', and are just more awesome looking that Lions just makes me giddy.  Thank you for trying to show how /awesome/ a hyena really is.

Go Gnolls.

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