J e te frapperai sans colère / Et sans haine comme un boucher

« I often imagine that the accident that made man into the animal he has become also happened to other animals — lions or hyenas for example — while man remained a primate. What would have happened ? It’s bizarre, I have never read anything about it, by Darwin or anyone else. Perhaps it’s science fiction, but it’s very interesting. I imagine men hanging in butcher’s shops for hyenas, who would be dressed in fur coats. The men would be hung by their feet, or cut up for stew or kebabs. »

« Ham, pigs, tongues, sides of beef seen in the butcher’s window, all that death, I find it very beautiful. And it’s all for sale — how unbelievably surrealistic ! »