Sentence Of The Day, Words and Phrases And all my austere nights of midnight oil, all the books I had read, all the wisdom I had gathered, went glimmering before the ape and tiger in me that crawled up from the abysm of my heredity, atavistic, competitive and brutal, lustful with strength and desire to outswine the swine. Posted on September 16, 2016 by Roger John Barleycorn by Jack London 0