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Camel's interest in nigger cock is pretty much on a par and of a piece with the interest felt by a bloke who's been digging a ditch all morning in a plate of fried eggs and bacon.

I suppose that's compatible with your thesis that "it's also part of the whole love/hate thing" if you happen to be an adherent to the philosophy of Anaximander, who considered the very stuff of the natural and human universe to be, for all its apparently infinite variety and diversity, reducible ultimately to the elementary principles of love and hate.

But, if such is the case, then to say that is to say no more than that Camel is acting according to Nature - and there are many more vocabularies beside the dusty old Anaximandrian one in which one might articulate that awesome and terrible truth.