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Nice to meet you Raymond and Darren!

I am currently reading Son Of Interflux, and I can’t believe it took me 40 years to realize the grave error in this Querada anecdote:

Querada was across the room and upon him like a chicken hawk. “There is only one excuse for missing a Querada class. Death — your own!”

Then he was back to normal again, pacing in front of the students. “When I was in Kenya, I was teaching a group of artists studying wildlife painting. One man, an Australian, missed one session and fell so far behind that he would never again catch up. He missed more and more sessions, and began taking long walks in the jungle. Poof! He was eaten by a tiger. If you’re in class, you can’t be eaten by a tiger!”

Deliberate, or was a 22 year old Korman not aware of the native wildlife in Africa?