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Could be "against" the exhilaration of one's dangerous life, when such mavericks as the ones who inspired Neil didn't know when to be careful enough, lost the sense of their own instinct of conservation and with it their lives or liberties, overexcited by the dangers they were living. As you know, Neil, in his book wrote : "1986 Big Audio Dynamite's 1986 hit single"E = MC2", features samples from the film Performance including this one : "Who do you think you are, the Lone Ranger ? You're Jack the Lad! That suggested the title of this song to me. I thought of "Jack the Lad" as a confident, rule-breaking, individualist maverick who is inevitably going to come to a sticky end. The examples I used wern't chirpy Cockney villains but T.E. Lawrence and Kim Phillby, one repressing his sexuality while leading an Arab revolt in the desert, the other covertly spying on his country for the Soviet Union from behind the façade of an intellectual. I owe the phrase "to feast with panthers" to Oscar Wilde who wrote of his life before prison in De Profundis : "It was like feasting with panthers ; the danger was half the excitement'"."
