Both Hemingway and Cobain made half hearted attempts before commiting fully to the no-going-back approach. And I'm not sure big game hunting is something you can really hang any kind of theory on insofar no bs masculine archetype. I always assumed it was a form of role playing like Mailer often embarrassingly fostered in public, often in front of the likes of Dick Cavett. (and didn't he headbutt Gore Vidal). I may not know what I'm talking about. Different times. In any case Chickenmaster never struck me as a shrinking violet and I could never picture him melting down here. But then it is idiotic to reconstruct a real personality based on how they perform on a message board.
I love reading you but you are exhausting. Kind of like David F. Wallace without the structure of the footnotes.