Recién termino la lectura de “Into The Wild”, la historia de Christopher J. McCandless (alias Alexander Supertramp), narrada por Jon Krakauer y de la que Sean Penn (que escribe y dirige) hará un film homónimo en 2007. Si la han visto (como yo apenas hace unas semanas) y se han quedado intrigados por las motivaciones románticas del jóven McCandless y su solitario, trágico desenlace en Alaska, consigan el soundtrack realizado por Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam) y escúchenlo mientras leen esta aventura por la ruta física (de Atlanta a Fairbanks) y espiritual de Chris que, en sus últimos días, destacaba este párrafo en un ejemplar de Dr. Zhivago de Boris Pasternak…
“Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies. Now, you can’t advance in this direction without a certain faith. You can’t make such discoveries without spiritual equipment. And the basic elements of this equipment are in the Gospels. What are they? To begin with, love of one’s neighbor, which is the supreme form of vital energy. Once it fills the heart of man it has to overflow and spend itself. And then the two basic ideals of modern man—without them he is unthinkable—the idea of free personality and the idea of life as sacrifice.”
