Kellogg wasn't predicting his own death or Custer's defeat; instead, "at the death" is a phrase borrowed from fox hunting meaning "present at the kill" (viz., of the pursued).
In my lesser moments I fear he will track me down replicant style in a hunt for meaning and vengeance.
We interpret and re-interpret Wallace's death; we resurrect his sweat and his despair; we hunt for meaning in his ashes like tea leaves, or toss these ashes off the cliffs of actual and metaphoric islands.
Unfurling its languorous intelligence, it looks out through her eyes, hunting for meaning the way it used to seek out deep sun, jade dew, hunting now for the means of imagining its own life, comprehending what it has become inside the girl.
All month, the Reading group has been hunting for meaning in Kafka.
Put crudely, women did not want to have sex with selfish men in primitive hunting times, meaning their genes were less likely to be passed on.
Here is a good place to begin: stop hunting for "meaning," per se, and simply look at the poems as imaginative brain-clouds you get to ride along on.
Sheer narrative propulsion drives the action of this haunting story, which plunges a Los Angeles police detective, Harry Bosch, into deep contemplation of the ancient history of human violence, as he hunts for meaning in the death of a 12-year-old boy whose skeletal remains turn up in the hills of Laurel Canyon.
For Zadie Smith this curious beginning to Kierkegaard's treatise is "a rehearsal: it lays out a series of rational explanations the better to demonstrate their poverty as explanations", and Lispector's narrator, too, is hunting a meaning that continues to elude her.
