It was true, there were other dogs, There could not but be other dogs on so vast a place, but they did not count.
Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. Then there was the pumping plant for the artesian well, and the big cement tank where Judge Miller's boys took their morning plunge and kept cool in the hot afternoon.Īnd over this great demesne Buck ruled. There were great stables, where a dozen grooms and boys held forth, rows of vine-clad servants' cottages, an endless and orderly array of outhouses, long grape arbors, green pastures, orchards, and berry patches. At the rear things were on even a more spacious scale than at the front. The house was approached by gravelled driveways which wound about through wide-spreading lawns and under the interlacing boughs of tall poplars. It stood back from the road, half hidden among the trees, through which glimpses could be caught of the wide cool veranda that ran around its four sides. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost.īuck lived at a big house in the sun-kissed Santa Clara Valley. Because men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. James Patterson (180 Books) Catherine Coulter (78 Books) Nora Roberts (76 Books) Anne McCaffrey (74 Books) Terry Pratchett (59 Books) Janet. This is no joke, and you do not need to be saved.Buck did not read the newspapers, or he would have known that trouble was brewing, not alone for himself, but for every tide-water dog, strong of muscle and with warm, long hair, from Puget Sound to San Diego. Self Help (1185 Books) Fantasy (7588 Books) Young Adult (3652 Books) Philosophy (551 Books) Science Fiction (2466 Books) Biography (877 Books) Psychology (605 Books) BooksVooks All Genres > Authors. You preferred anything to an anticlimax and you got what you wanted. At first you are consumed with fear, then acceptance. Her ordeal changed her into a mute lost in some private world, but she is no raving lunatic.That was far beyond eccentric. You will now experience death, the final emotional and physical climax. The same isolation that you longed for, that brought you happiness and fragility as well as sadness and danger, is a duality. However, you would be joking if you did not think there was a price to pay for the ultimate. You were right you experienced emotional stratification, the ultimate extremes. You thought you had discovered something new, something that would allow you to experience the ultimate emotions a human body can produce.
You have gambled your life and lost, the loneliness you experience is comical, you have ignored human history and tried to embrace the very danger and chaos that modern man sought to escape. The mentality of your new life slowly unravels into a mass of hypocrisy and pointlessness. The moment where defeat is accepted is always difficult, but if defeat means death the pain is unimaginable. In the name of God, please remain to save me (12). In these situations the only fulfillment is death, the only time when the old self is completely gone. We are either satisfied with what we can change, or in a constant state of motion, trying to solve a problem that has no solution. It is impossible to completely change ourselves we will always have the memories, behaviors, and bodies from our previous form. The thoughts and pursuits of modern man are impossible to shake completely. This ideological pursuit, to find a controlled environment where the only variable is oneself, was absurd. You have to spend time thinking about, questioning, and defining your own existence.īut there was a side to him that was a little bit dreamy, a little bit out of touch with reality (81). You cannot redefine yourself if you are hampered by the things that define you. From outside these actions are confusing, pointless. They have rejected life and its rules, instead they seek to find rules instead of make them up, learn instead of teach. They seek solitude, a chance to look within. A man who has given away a small fortune, forsaken a loving family, abandoned his car, watch, and map, and burned the last of his money before traipsing off into the wilderness (71).
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