We avoid other people like you’d avoid a jaguar, and when we see a discarded mask or glove on the ground, it may as well be an anaconda. A cough across the room can set us off like a distant growl.
I WAS afraid of the jungle, and fascinated by it. Perhaps it was because I had come too untraveled, too directly from the pines to the palms and the strangling figs and the clawed wild pineapples, ...