Edgar Rice Burroughs Quote
There would be little pleasure in hunting, retorted the first speaker, if one is afraid of the thing he hunts. D'Arnot smiled. Tarzan afraid! I do not exactly understand what you mean by fear, said Tarzan. Like lions, fear is a different thing in different men, but to me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt. Then I am to take it that Monsieur Tarzan would prefer to go naked into the jungle, armed only with a jackknife, to kill the king of beasts, laughed the other, good naturedly, but with the merest touch of sarcasm in his tone.
There would be little pleasure in hunting, retorted the first speaker, if one is afraid of the thing he hunts. D'Arnot smiled. Tarzan afraid! I do not exactly understand what you mean by fear, said Tarzan. Like lions, fear is a different thing in different men, but to me the only pleasure in the hunt is the knowledge that the hunted thing has power to harm me as much as I have to harm him. If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt. Then I am to take it that Monsieur Tarzan would prefer to go naked into the jungle, armed only with a jackknife, to kill the king of beasts, laughed the other, good naturedly, but with the merest touch of sarcasm in his tone.
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About Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every possible way, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, films, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs's California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character. Burroughs was an explicit supporter of eugenics and scientific racism in both his fiction and nonfiction; Tarzan was meant to reflect these concepts.