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...Another sells mutual funds. Dickey's narrator, Ed Gentry, runs a Southern graphics studio cheerfully described as a "no-sweat shop." Just occasionally he is nudged by a fear of encroaching flab and a feeling that he is sliding too easily through life. Of them all, only Lewis Medlock seems outward-bound for the heart of darkness. At 38, he is an expert archer, spelunker, weight lifter and fiend for physical fitness; he is also an obsessive and philosophic seeker of challenges. He presses the others to join him on a three-day canoe trip down a north Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journey into Self | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...think the machines are going to fail," Medlock explains, "the political systems are going to fail and a few men are going to take to the hills and start over." Survival, he points out, depends "on having to survive. The kind of life I'm talking about depends on its being the last chance. The very last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Journey into Self | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

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