wild.

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"It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what
you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that
if you want something badly enough , it is your
God-given right to have it. . . I was a raw youth who mistook
passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic.
I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life.
In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing.
But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles
for dreams.

And I lived to tell my tale."