Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

James Jones
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"Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all.

They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny." This is a quote from "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey. It is about an old man who lived alone in the desert and continued to live there even as he aged and eventually died. The old man was not concerned with those around him, those were just things that happened now and those would continue to happen even if I wasn't around.

Source: The Thin Red Line

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