"There's a fable," Sidney replies, "about a man and a tiger. The man, pursued by the tiger, is driven off a cliff. Halfway down, he manages to grasp a branch. Above him, the tiger waits, growling. Below him, another tiger is snarling. The man knows he is going to die."
"Between a tiger and a hard place." Hawkeye mutters.
"Just then, the man sees a strawberry on the branch, and he eats it. One of the sweetest thing he's ever tasted."
Hawkeye stares. "And?"
"And he fell and died a gruesome death."
"Some fable."
"I never said it was good."