Bear managers and park wardens have tried aversive conditioning before: in Banff, for instance, they used to drive up to bears eating roadside vegetation and blast them with water cannons.
Mr. Cannon, it turns out, eats only at Justin's or at Mr. Chow.
All along the ramparts, the space for soldiers and cannons is now covered in grass, and consequently in people, lying back, eating, reading, flying Sri Lankan kites.
If there is a political message in "Pulgasari," Shin says, it is a subtle, if ironic, call for pacifism: in the face of a cannon-eating beast, he says, "there are limits to what weapons can do".
During the war, the Duke of Braganza mounted cannons, dug trenches, tended the wounded, ate among the rank and file and fought under heavy fire as men next to him were shot or blown to pieces.
In the first half of the century when these people were growing up, the government was encouraging people to eat high fat, high sugar diets (Cannon, 1992), so it seems understandable that older people are less receptive to new guidelines which are directly contrary to this.
They'd ask each other, "How much more is there?" When they heard the cannon fire, they'd waited for Bekir the cook to eat something in the kitchen, before they, too, set upon the food.
During service on the French frigate Hoche, he attempted to eat the severed leg of a crew member hit by cannon fire, before other members of the crew wrestled it from him.
