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WanderingEng  ·  2694 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: January 31, 2018

I started Into The Wild today. I'm not quite sure where to insert this but figure I'll just do it here.

    it paled beside the prospect of rough congress with nature

I'm not sure if I hate McCandless or Krakauer here, but I definitely hate at least one of them (this is page 66; I already hated McCandless about fifty pages ago). "Rough congress with nature" pisses me off. Nature has no fucks to give about anyone.

What I hate about McCandless is he seemed to think of himself as some sort of individualist, but so far at page 66 all he's done is bounce from one person who helps him out a bit to another person who helps him out a bit. We know how this ends: he leaves a note asking for someone to help him, and when nobody happens by to help him, he dies.