“He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.”

—  Jack London, book Call of the Wild

The Call of the Wild (1903)

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American author, journalist, and social activist 1876–1916

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