Response To The Immense Journey
I think that Eiseley's message for the majority of the passage was better expressed, in idea and prose, by Thoreau in his novel Walden. The Immense Journey, to me, has its moments of insight, albeit brief ones and Eiseley does express himself fairly well. The world gives itself to the individual in solitude, whether in a literal sense or simply in a passing moment of privacy. Society provides distraction and the world, in all its chaotic organization and grace can very easily be taken for granted. But in those quiet moments in your head, when for some reason our attention is drawn away from responsibilities and entertainment, we can feel apart of the world (it's ironic that we spend our lives searching for our place in the world and it isn't until we're alone that we can find it). Society has bred us to believe that as humans we should set ourselves apart from everything else, that there is man and there is animal, where man is civilized, animal is primitive. We have been brought up......
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