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Call of the wild and the sea wolf6/23/2023 The reader used multiple voices and accents to animate the characters, and this allowed me to enjoy the story without struggling to maintain attention. However, I also feel that the quality of the reading, and the recording quality, were instrumental in my new understanding. I understand the need for balance more fully now. I believe that I did not understand the book when I was younger because I had not yet, in my own life, had the experiences of meeting the world on its own terms. The conflict that results, and the subsequent resolution, marries the two worlds quite nicely. The antagonist is a materialist and a hedonist who does not believe in the soul, but only the physical struggle of life. He is impotent in the real, natural world. The protagonist is a quite recognizable figure of civilized society, who is totally reliant on the civilization that supports him, and who justifies his existence in spiritual terms. This is a book I read while younger, but hardly understood.
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