On 19/12/2007 Capt_mulch wrote:
>Judith Kleinfeld wrote in the Anchorage Daily News that "many Alaskans
>react with rage to his stupidity. You'd have to be a complete idiot, they
>say, to die of starvation in summer 20 miles off the Park's Highway."
I think you're missing the point Mulchy. He didn't seek to be rescued nor, perhaps, live long term in the wild. It was an ascetic decision on his revulsion to modern life. Read The Dharma Bums by Kerouac if you don't understand the why... |