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resurrection of the brain (this is not a blog)
Expect a restart soon. In the meantime, think about this:
"To the desert go prophets and hermits; through deserts go pilgrims and exiles. Here the leaders of the great religions have south the therapeutic and spiritual values of retreat, not to escape but to find reality." -- Paul Shepard in Man in the Landscape: A Historic View of the Esthetics of Nature, gleaned from Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer [p. 25]
Am I fascinated by the tale of Chris McCandless because of what he did or because he died doing it? Would there be a story if Chris had survived? To be a messiah, you must first die.
Posted Monday, June 30, 2008 by donavan
