QUERY ABOUT GODARD’S “DETECTIVE”

Can someone help, please. At some point in Godard’s 1985 “Detective” either the old Mafia-guy (played by Alain Cuny) or his assistant reads aloud from a book. It is a parable involving animals. Apes make peace, gaining the quick support of carnivores such as the tiger, which proceed to convince other, weaker species to sign […]