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Hoping to inspire submissions, they note that Martha "offers a simulacrum of warmth in a house devoid of people; she represents the instinct of workmanship to a population long divorced from it."
As it turns out, this altruistic instinct proves fatal not for the narrator but for one of the other rescuers.
Farrow says that after Roman Polanski cast her in the career-making role of the young, pregnant woman in Rosemary's Baby , he took advantage of her lack of an instinct for self-preservation and filmed a scene of her threading dangerously through oncoming traffic.
Instinct is "inspired" by Daniel Quinn's 1991 cult novel Ishmael , which is largely a Socratic, telepathic dialogue between a man and a gorilla, the latter of whom hectors the former about the destructive path of modern society and restates the history of the world as a struggle between "leavers" (animals, wise nomadic tribes) and "takers" (mostly white males).
Let's call it instinct.