Monday, March 07, 2005
What ever happened to the adventure novel?
Jack London? That guy went to Alaska, hung out, and wrote about it, sure it's fiction but the little details feel pretty solid. Rudyard Kipling, he's from India. Into Thin Air, that's about the best I've read from now times.
National geographic - eh, those feel really organized though. I think it is a lot more interesting if it is an individual who just kind of says, "fuck why not go live in Alaska" and does it. I don't think Alaska is that wild anymore but there have to be some places like that still. Antartica? that's pretty remote. I'd read a book written by - not a scientist - but somebody who is maybe.... a mechanic, yeah, one of those dudes who fixes the snow cat things they roll around in in Antartica.
Where is this all coming from? mmm, I been reading about hermits lately. What kinds of people go into hermitage? Well, there are some monks that do it. There was this scientist/filmaker who lived on an island too shitty for anybody else to live there to film crabs. umm. and there was an alcoholic. He became a hermit to stop drinking mostly. this is his journal
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2256&dept_id=457701&newsid=13431339&PAG=461&rfi=9>
Jack London? That guy went to Alaska, hung out, and wrote about it, sure it's fiction but the little details feel pretty solid. Rudyard Kipling, he's from India. Into Thin Air, that's about the best I've read from now times.
National geographic - eh, those feel really organized though. I think it is a lot more interesting if it is an individual who just kind of says, "fuck why not go live in Alaska" and does it. I don't think Alaska is that wild anymore but there have to be some places like that still. Antartica? that's pretty remote. I'd read a book written by - not a scientist - but somebody who is maybe.... a mechanic, yeah, one of those dudes who fixes the snow cat things they roll around in in Antartica.
Where is this all coming from? mmm, I been reading about hermits lately. What kinds of people go into hermitage? Well, there are some monks that do it. There was this scientist/filmaker who lived on an island too shitty for anybody else to live there to film crabs. umm. and there was an alcoholic. He became a hermit to stop drinking mostly. this is his journal
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2256&dept_id=457701&newsid=13431339&PAG=461&rfi=9>
