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Drawing of a red cat tearing into a deer and blood gushing out

Saturday 21.2.2026

"This universal conflict is to be seen most clearly in the animal kingdom. Animals have the vegetable kingdom for their nourishment, and within the animal kingdom again every animal is the prey and food of some other. This means that the matter in which an animal's Idea manifests itself must stand aside for the manifestation of another Idea, since every animal can maintain its own existence only by the incessant elimination of another's. Thus the will-to-live generally feasts on itself..."

Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Vol. 1, §27 (page 147 in the Payne translation)

This isn't our dear protagonist, it's his brother — our dear antagonist.