Sebastian Junger
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
This amazing thought.
He said, in moments, I'm going to join the sunlight.
I'm going to be part of all things.
We're all part of all things.
And in minutes, that's what I'll be.
And then he said, in his mind, he thought, if I should, by some miracle, survive this.
I'm gonna live my life turning every moment into an infinity.
So two of the six men in that group, it broke them.
They were insane for the rest of their lives.
Dostoevsky, he survived it psychologically, and it deepened him enormously.
And he wrote through other characters, he wrote about that experience.
There's an amazing poem by Ted Hughes called Wolfwatching.
Wolves are, of course, equivalent to tigers, right?
The canine equivalent to tigers.
And he goes to the zoo and looks at the wolf.
And the poem, Wolf Watching, it's worth looking up.
It's just one of the most extraordinary poems about exactly what you're talking about.
And the look in the wolf's eye and what he knows you're doing to him.