Tarzan! He is the ultimate man in literature. Yes, literature. Throw away those images of the Tarzan movies of old with the, "Me. Tarzan. You. Jane." Tarzan was quite educated, as well as, strong, noble and fierce.
If you have read Edgar Rice Burroughs and the 24 books of the adventures or Tarzan, you know Tarzan to have taught himself to read by recognizing "bugs" below pictures in the primary readers left behind by his parents. You also know that he was eventually found, taken to society, and educated by his friend from the French Foreign Legion. Yet, he returned home to live in the jungle where the rules were simpler. They may have been the laws of the jungle, but they also seemed to give Tarzan a nobility beyond civilized man.
And, now we look at the 21st Century, a new jungle, savage and dangerous, yet filled with wonder, beauty and truth coming to us at the speed of digital photo-energy. So, like Tarzan, let us go cautiously forward and find the treasures. Let us respect all the denizens of the jungle, avoid the dangers and predators and stand tall to cry out into the wilderness our presence.
Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle!
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