I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the b — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the b — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the b — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the b — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the b — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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I was stirred by the dark mystery of mortality. I couldn’t resist stealing up to the edge of doom and peering over the brink (…) That was a very different thing from wanting to die.

— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
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