Tracks Quotes: Themes Flashcards
Weaker sex
Gender
My grip on reality was a little shaky
Challenge
Essential for me to develop beyond the archetypal female creature
Gender
Sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the mailise of my generation, my sex
Gender
Something to be proved
Gender
Awe inspiring beast
Animals
Tiredness overwhelmed me
Challenge
Life was good and bountiful
Enjoyment
Seemed unfair to ask my family to donate money
Family
Various pressures on me
Expectations
Unspeakable hell
Challenges
Heat would be so immense
Challenge
Bend the mind a little
Challenge
Rational, clever, articulate, intellectual, competent, dedicated, revolutionary, verbally aggressive men
Gender
Why was everyone so goddam effected by this trip?
Individualism
The trip was beginning to lose some of its simplicity
Challenge
One of me had known
Challenge
It seemed as if the trip belonged to everyone but me
Individualism
Didn’t want the mental crutch (two way radio)… with the outside world
Individualism
I could feel anxiety and excitement bulging the back of my eyeballs
Adventure
All around me was magnificence
Nature
Great weight lifted off my back
Expectations
I love you. I love you sky, bird, wind, precipice, space, sun, desert
Nature
The camera seemed omnipresent
Individualism
Make or break me
Challenge
Impossibly beautiful place
Nature
The last burning bridge back to my old self collapsed
Transformation
Feeling of release
Transformation
Breaking free of departmental rulings
Transformation
The country I was travelling through held my undivided attention
Nature
Desert is bountiful, teeming with life
Nature
I grew muscles on my shit
Transformation
Thick and gorgeous with billions of stars
Nature
My little heart felt like a macaw in a canary cage
Challenge
I could feel the enormity of the desert
Challenge
I felt very small and very alone
Challenge
Walking was beginning to take its toll
Challenge
I treated them like porcelain
Nature
I had been hot, irritable and tired
Challenge
Constant tension was sapping my energy and I sweated and strained
Challenge
The trip was not a game
Challenge
The desert was larger than I could comprehend
Challenge
Tourists were beginning to drive me crazy
Individualism
Assaulted by psychedelic dreams
Challenge