``There is often a lot going on if there is a lion around, even though
the lion is assuredly a noble beast.  For example, when you put ``noble
beast'' together with ``Hollywood,'' interesting situations arise.  Say a
scene calls for a lion to be, sadly, run over by a truck.  A large truck,
of course, because a large truck is required if the lion is to look pathetic.
Alas for the Voice from the Whirlwind, who praised his servants the animals
for being ever beyond human capacities to subdue, we have learned to
make the lion look pathetic, without the use of weapons.  Our imaginations
are no better than Nietzsche's psychologists, mucking around in the souls
of men as if in a swamp.''

Vicki Hearne _Animal Happiness_ p.169