Comments on: Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:40:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 2010 in review « 2sparrows http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-1675 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 16:28:50 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-1675 [...] Into the Wild. Jon Krakauer. May 2008 6 comments 3 [...]

]]> By: seanb724 http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-446 Thu, 21 May 2009 11:37:29 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-446 Funny you put that quote here. Shortly after reading “Into the Wild” I read “Call of the Wild (And other stories)” by London, and here is my post. I put that same quote in that post, and that is the only quote from all the stories that “made the cut.”

]]> By: Annualgain http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-445 Thu, 21 May 2009 11:00:31 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-445 There is a quote from Jack London that shares a similar theme, that when you are in the rush of racing, falling, climbing or in great danger, you forget you are alive. You become unaware of yourself. I find it interesting that Krakauer expresses it in a book that quotes London so often.

“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. “

]]> By: Call of The Wild; White Fang; Other Stories. Jack London. « 2sparrows http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-351 Wed, 17 Dec 2008 02:51:43 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-351 [...] have been wanting to read Jack London since reading/watching Into the Wild, and finally got around to it.  This version has Call of the Wild, White Fang, and five other [...]

]]> By: Quote from Into the Wild #2 « 2sparrows http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-164 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:24:15 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-164 [...] the book [...]

]]> By: Quote from Into the Wild #1 « 2sparrows http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-163 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:23:55 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-163 [...] the book [...]

]]> By: Quote from Into the Wild « 2sparrows http://blog.2sparrows.org/2008/05/21/into-the-wild-jon-krakauer/#comment-162 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:23:32 +0000 http://2sparrows.wordpress.com/?p=350#comment-162 [...] the book [...]

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