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The White Darkness
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The photographs are 5 star. The obsession portrayed and explained is near to a 5.
It's brief and to the point. Rather like the majority of lives described in Antarctica exploration done in this hiking/ pulling manner. Henry Wolsey's idealizations and the performances to obtain the goals he reached and those he attempted- they are worth the read.
Of such adventurous giants the unknown has become known.
But honestly, there truly is a core of self-abnegation or some such quality that pivots on this kind of "just because I want to accomplish it". Almost as if the most horrific suffering in the physical body grows all the mind (logic), ego and emotional euphoria that is possible. Somehow. Not to speak of the horrors left to those left behind in their suffering over being "less" important than the obsessive quest.
My enjoyment to reading this became a 2 star by the last 40 pages. Like reading long lists of pain, torture, physical ailments and end states of the most chronically ill. It reminded me of the reads of my youth in which the "saints" purposely suffered self-flagellation, starvation, etc. in order to be more "perfect" or in a better spiritual level of "good".
To me it just seems psychotic. My eyes did not like looking at all the white; they ache. I'm not kidding. Between the heavy pages and the glare- it was a task for them.
It's brief and to the point. Rather like the majority of lives described in Antarctica exploration done in this hiking/ pulling manner. Henry Wolsey's idealizations and the performances to obtain the goals he reached and those he attempted- they are worth the read.
Of such adventurous giants the unknown has become known.
But honestly, there truly is a core of self-abnegation or some such quality that pivots on this kind of "just because I want to accomplish it". Almost as if the most horrific suffering in the physical body grows all the mind (logic), ego and emotional euphoria that is possible. Somehow. Not to speak of the horrors left to those left behind in their suffering over being "less" important than the obsessive quest.
My enjoyment to reading this became a 2 star by the last 40 pages. Like reading long lists of pain, torture, physical ailments and end states of the most chronically ill. It reminded me of the reads of my youth in which the "saints" purposely suffered self-flagellation, starvation, etc. in order to be more "perfect" or in a better spiritual level of "good".
To me it just seems psychotic. My eyes did not like looking at all the white; they ache. I'm not kidding. Between the heavy pages and the glare- it was a task for them.
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