Sebastian Junger
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Because he wrote about it.
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What's the world look like?
What's it really look like when you're about to be torn from it?
And so he said he was standing there
And he saw sunlight glinting off the steeple of a church.
And he had this amazing thought, which goes to your point, right?
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.