Each person bears a fear which is special to him. One man fears a close space and another man fears drowning; each laughs at the other and calls him stupid. Thus fear is only a preference, to be counted the same as the preference for one woman or another, or mutton for pig, or cabbage for onion.
Michael Crichton (1997). “The 13th Warrior.: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922.”
