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Re: [at-l] I can relate...

At 01:57 PM 5/31/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Did anyone see the ABC news show 20/20 last night?  They did a story about a
>young man who at his college graduation party announced that he'd be
>

There was a book written about this called "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer.
Good read.

   I think anyone who was/is disgusted at modern society felt like Chris
McCandless at one point or another. There is a passage in this book that
has a letter McCadndless wrote to his friend, in this letter there is a
line that states:
" The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence
there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for
each day to have a new and different sun."

   I think this expresses many, if not all, of our feeling towards the
outdoors.

McCandless' "sin" was to be naive and unprepared for the adventure. Did the
20/20 story mention however that this person more or less survived on his
working odd jobs? Paddling to Mexico?  Just read the book. I do not think
the  20/20 story (Which I did not see) did McCandless justice...


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