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Book Review: The Call of the Wild

‘There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise…’

‘Caring too much for objects can destroy you…’

‘It is always quietly thrilling to find yourself looking at a world you know well but have never seen from such an angle before…’

‘The victims of Jack the Ripper were never ‘just prostitutes’; they were daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, and lovers...’

‘Comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love…’

‘Great events turn on small hinges…’

‘Gladiators needed to happen to Saturday night television in the same way punk needed to happen to music in the late ’70s…’

‘Men don’t have to pay attention the way we do…’

‘You have only one life, make the most of it…’

‘Something stopped me in school a little bit. Anything that I’m not interested in, I can’t even feign interest...’