4-17 and 4-18

Camp Bob 2008

Fun Quote

My 8th graders are reading The Call of the Wild, by Jack London.
Here's a quote to think about.

"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of live, 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. He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature
that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time. He was mastered by the
sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate
muscle, joint, and sinew and that it was everything that was not death, that it was
aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars
and over the face of dead matter that did not move."