30+ years living off the land above the arctic cirlce
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Larry Gude
Strung Out
Fabulous story. Lotta really interesting, compelling things to consider.
It strikes me, right away, that the predator life, well, that's your purpose every day, sustenance. Keeps you busy, things that have to be accomplished every day. Also shows, by their health, we ain't vegans by nature.
It's interesting how he considers his idea of life, of needing three cabins to keep from depleting resources too much in that vastness. I mean, by that standard, absent farming, that world view means exponentially fewer people on the planet. It also means no art, no science, no advances in anything other than basic day to day survival and that's where it gets to that meaning of life stuff. That's what I would have enjoyed talking with him about; if your only purpose is survival, only interest, what compels you to think in terms of what life may be like, as he wondered, in 5,000 years.
The kid, the narrator, he'd be fun to talk to as well. And Edna.
I guess that's the real message; even in ANWR, a man learns the basic truth of life when it comes to women; it is all your fault. Regardless.
Good stuff!
It strikes me, right away, that the predator life, well, that's your purpose every day, sustenance. Keeps you busy, things that have to be accomplished every day. Also shows, by their health, we ain't vegans by nature.
It's interesting how he considers his idea of life, of needing three cabins to keep from depleting resources too much in that vastness. I mean, by that standard, absent farming, that world view means exponentially fewer people on the planet. It also means no art, no science, no advances in anything other than basic day to day survival and that's where it gets to that meaning of life stuff. That's what I would have enjoyed talking with him about; if your only purpose is survival, only interest, what compels you to think in terms of what life may be like, as he wondered, in 5,000 years.
The kid, the narrator, he'd be fun to talk to as well. And Edna.
I guess that's the real message; even in ANWR, a man learns the basic truth of life when it comes to women; it is all your fault. Regardless.
Good stuff!