Dickey is not suggesting that this is all that life can be he is reminding us of what he thinks it fundamentally is.
It means that once the superstructure of courtesy, of convention, of ethics has been stripped away, what remains is life, meaningful and operative primarily in physical, sexual terms.
It is part of the pervasive theme of sex which Dickey uses to convey an understanding of what life in the so-called great outdoors-or anywhere-is all about when the chips are down. But the sexual episode with the mountain men, with all its brutality and violence, is not simply the first in a twenty-four-hour series of nightmare adventures. It is hard not to think of this act of sex when we think of the novel in general-and this seems precisely Dickey's intent. The homosexual rape scene in James Dickey's Deliverance is stunningly crude and unforgettable.
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