CHAPTER 11

MUSIC SOOTHES THE SAVAGE BEAST

29 OCT 2002

They say that music soothes the savage beast, that you can hypnotize them with the rhythmatic sounds, much like a cobra swaying back and forth before the flute player in the market.....

But you know the cobra is only waiting for a missed beat, for the flute player to make a mistake, and then, with lightning swiftness, he attacks, pumping his deadly poison into the veins of who was minutes before his captor, but now, his prey.

But does music really sooth the savage beast? If a pitbull has clamped down on your arm, and is tearing it to shreds, if you were to whistle a tune, would it cease? Or, would it just keep on tearing away?

Or a shark.... the most graceful and elegant creature in the sea, yet when it senses even a drop of blood from miles away, goes into a frenzy so horrific that not even the band from the Titanic could sate its appetite...

....not that they didn't try....

No, music doesn't soothe the savage beast. It temporarily blinds them, but when the spell is broken, a note misplayed, a beat skipped, then the beast returns once more, to go for the throat, to tear into the jugular, to taste the sweet nectar of the warm, pulsating, crimson fluid they call life....