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| 12 | 55 | "If one's objective was View more quotes about really">really to terrorize or to inflict vengeance-precluding injuries, then it seems that the corpses, regularly, would be blinded, or have the hands and feet cut off. |
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| 12 | 52 | "True," said Grunt, "but, too, I think it is generally understood that this sort of thing produces fear not so much as a desire for revenge, at least among the savages themselves". |
| 12 | 53 | "Your second theory you take most seriously, then?" I asked. |
| 12 | 54 | "Not really," said he. |
| 12 | 55 | "If one's objective was really to terrorize or to inflict vengeance-precluding injuries, then it seems that the corpses, regularly, would be blinded, or have the hands and feet cut off. |
| 12 | 56 | On the other hand, those particular injuries are very seldom inflicted". |
| 12 | 57 | "Why, then, do you think it is done?" I asked. |
| 12 | 58 | "I think," said Grunt, "that it is done in the joy and lust of victory, that it ventilates powerful emotion, that it expresses vengeance and hatred, and, indeed, pleasure and life, and that it is done, too, to show contempt for the enemy and to humiliate him, thereby demonstrating one's own superiority". |