Philosopher and the Wolf, The, 8–9, 65
Plato, 55, 189–91, 194
Meno, 28
Republic, 144
play, 88–9, 91–7, 148, 153, 182, 184–9, 195
pleasure, 195–201
rabbits, 57–8, 70, 92
rabies vaccine, 61
Rage Against the Machine, 162
Rathmore Peninsula, 56
rats, 142
reasons, and actions, 170–3, 177–80, 199–200
reincarnation, 28
relaxation, 51
religion, 97–100, 191, 194
reptiles, 141–3
rhythm, 48–52, 97
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 34
Rimbaud, Arthur, 103
Ringcurran Castle, 68
Riquet, Pierre-Paul, 135, 148
Roux, Emile, 61
rugby, 20, 36–7, 39–40, 80–1
running
Americans and, 7–9
effects on brain, 48–54
enjoyment of, 94–5
and evolution, 73–5
final cause of, 75–8
and instrumental value, 184, 192–4
and intrinsic value, 92–3, 97, 100, 180, 184, 193–5, 203
and play, 91–2, 184, 195
as undifferentiated activity, 92–3
women and, 17
running magazines, 45
Saliva, 162
Sam, 108–9
sanctions, 125
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 165–70, 172–5, 180, 200
Satan, 113, 115
scavengers, 69–70
Schiller, Friedrich, 185–8, 195
Schlick, Moritz, 85–8, 92, 94, 96, 152–3, 183–4, 199
Schopenhauer, Arthur, 116–18, 120, 122–3, 144–5
sculptors, 64–5
self, dissolution of, 162–5
self-realization, 144
Sérignan, 136
sex, 94–5, 186–7
Shakespeare, William, 185
sheep, 38
Sillitoe, Alan, 171
snake venom, 111–12
snakes, 16, 102–3, 107–13
coral snakes, 111–12
diamondbacks, 112
moccasins, 109–11
pygmy rattlers, 112
soccer, 36
social groups, 124–5
social instincts, 125
Sparta, 192
Spinoza, Baruch, 21–3, 30, 162
sports, high-velocity, 20–1
statues, 64–5
stress fractures, 12
suffering, 116–17, 119–20
Suits, Bernard, 90, 92, 95, 187
Tantalus, 87
Taoism, 21
teeth, 142
tennis, 20, 91–3
termites, 124
Tess, 56, 58, 62–4, 71, 75, 79–80, 82, 84, 88, 100–1, 105–6, 110, 137–8, 148–50
thermodynamics, laws of, 113–16, 120, 122–4, 126, 131
thumbs, 66
time, 134
tiredness, 126
Tolstoy, Leo, 97–100
tragedy, 202
Trason, Ann, 17
truth, metaphysical, 119, 185
Twmbarlwm, 39
undifferentiated activity, 92–3
utilitarianism, 197
Utopia, 189
Vienna Circle, 86
Village of the Damned, 45
Villeneuve-les-Béziers, 136
visual experience, 50
voles, 142
whales, 142
Whitehead, Alfred North, 189
Williams, Bernard, 143
winning, 94–5
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 14, 26, 89–90, 201
wolves, 68–70, 125
see also Brenin
women, 17
work, 9, 86–9, 91, 93–7, 148, 186, 188–9, 196, 198
worms, 114–15, 130–1
Wrangham, Richard, x
writing, 95–6
wu wei, 21
Wyndham, John, 45
‘yips, the’, see choking
youth, 152–3
freedom of, 20–1, 23–4, 44
Zatopek, Emil, 1, 6
Zeus, 187–8, 198
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