all of this was done so that this feral maniac , this true essence of the unrestrained brute of man , might gain his three hundred baht a day plus living expenses and a sense of famed manhood from the trophy of his hunthis photograph in the bangkok post showing a smug , complacent grin of one basking in the spotlight , as though , in his mind , this attention was the fulfillment of the supreme purpose of his existence that went beyond the pittance usually granted for his sustenance .