Monday, November 29, 2010

Suck the juices out of life Mr. Franz

"It is simply waiting out there for you to grasp it, and all you have to do is reach for it."p.58

This quote was taken from John Krakauer's Into the Wild. This quote was taken from a letter by Chris McCandless to Robert Franz. McCandless was a drifter, out to see the raw appeal of nature, and thought that Robert Franz was living a stale and dull existence. Robert Franz was an older man that saw Chris hitchhiking on the side of the road and decided to give him a lift. McCandless and Frans immediately had a connection and became friends. Chris McCandless had a goal, that goal was to go on a great Alaskan adventure, and to live in the wild for several months. When he made it to Alaska he sent his final letter to Robert Franz. It told Franz he needed rethink the way he lived. He had the same old routine, day after day, and McCandless thought he could break free of this lifestyle. He thought Franz should "loose his inclination for momentous security"p.57 and he would truly suck the juices out of life and live to the fullest.

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