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04. January 2006

WayWords from Jack London

Placed online: 04.01.2006 at 15:19 by Elaine Konopka
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Our friend, playwright and poet Peter Campbell, sent us this quote from Jack London’s The Call of the Wild:

There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

one response to “WayWords from Jack London”

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    Such a mindfullness thought of life itself. That very statement drew me into the zen-way as a teen back in 62 and carried me on to the south China Sea in search for the way. Happy to have found this web site and the treasures within.

    03. September 2006 at 19:17 by don lanier

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