Whatever lip-service we may pay to Reason, . . . to moderation and compromise, nevertheless there remains the lion. A lion in each one of you. He is either tamed -- by too much mathematics, by details of design, by corporate procedures -- or he stays wild, an eternal predator. The lion does not know subtleties and half-solutions. He does not accept sharing as a basis for anything! He takes, he holds! . . . You will never hear relativity from the lion. He wants the absolute. Life and death. Win and lose. Not truces or arrangements, but the joy of the leap, the roar, the blood.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
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