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Updated: May 22, 2025
To cease thinking, to have done with feeling, to be a clod, dead to desires, to high hopes and heart-numbing fears. "Come in and have a cup of tea and tell me the latest Vancouver scandal," Lawanne urged, when they beached the canoe. Hollister assented. He was as well there as anywhere. If there were an antidote in human intercourse for what afflicted him, that antidote lay in Archie Lawanne.
Looking upward, he saw the shadowy figures of the men on the bluff. He realized they ought to see him, feared that they would. But he kept on, cautiously, noiselessly, with a heart-numbing slowness. From time to time his elbow made a little gurgle and splash in the water. Try as he might, he could not prevent this. It got to be like the hollow roar of a rapid filling his ears with mocking sound.
Out of the twilight shone a wan, round, lusterless ring that Rea said was the sun. The silence and desolation were heart-numbing. "Where are the wolves?" asked Jones of Rea. "Wolves can't live on snow. They're farther south after caribou, or farther north after musk-ox." In those few still intervals Jones remained out as long as he dared, with the mercury sinking to -sixty degrees.
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