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
Fratility of human life
Challenge
Enjoying the lack of pressure
Expectations
I entered a new realm of exhaustion
Challenge
Nothing like a bit of danger to get the blood flowing again
Challenge
I melted into a feeling of belonging
Enjoyment
The journey had lost all its meaning
Challenge
My steps felt achingly slow, small and leaden
Challenge
I was scared deep in my bones
Challenge
My vision was distorted by fear
Challenge
Time was different here, it stretched
Enjoyment
Some string somewhere inside me was starting to unravel
Transformation
There was nothing but chaos and the voices
Challenges
You’ve gone too far this time. I’ve got you now, and I hate you
Challenge
I tried to conquer the presence with my own voice
Challenge
I had not eaten properly
Challenge
I was completely disorientated
Challenge
I still didn’t know how mad I was
Challenge
The usual pancakes made with wholemeal, bug-infested flour, eggs and milk
Adventure
I was itching to get away, still caught in my western nets, trying to fight them and having little success
Transformation
Brutal afternoon sun which scorched my face
Challenge
I was being torn by two different time concepts
Challenge
Time melted- became meaningless
Challenge
I hated shooting these lovely animals
Nature
I could eat anything and did. I was putrid
Transformation
I had lost my stud, so put through a large safety pin
Transformation
Bloody swine! I was boiling with anger
Individualism
Desocialising process- the sloughing off like a snake skin
Transformation
Useless preoccupations and and standards of the society I had left
Rejection of society
Almost forgotten patterns of interaction with my own kind
Transformation
I had become so dependent on that rifle
Survival
New found confidence
Transformation
I could not remember ever associating (happiness) with myself
Transformation
Simply tedious and tiring
Challenge
It was a giant cleansing of all the garbage and muck that had accumulated in my brain
Transformation
I was happy
Transformation
Solid reliance on myself
Transformation
By this stage I was so fit, I was virtually immune to cold and pain
Transformation
The openness and emptiness which had first threatened me were now a comfort which allowed my sense of freedom and joyful aimlessness to grow
Transformation
The self in the desert becomes… more like the desert
Transformation
I talked constantly to myself
Individualism
I learnt to shiver myself warm
Transformation
Relief to be free of disguises and prettiness and attractiveness
Rejecting society
I must not fall into that trap again
Rejection society
My wits got me through where the gun didn’t
Transformation
Diggity was more than a dog
Companionship
Why dogs chose humans in the first place I will never understand
Hatred of mankind
I was utterly deprogrammed
Transformation
I could not remember, or put into context, etiquette
Transformation
Would anybody notice or care?
Transformation
I could blart with the best of them
Transformation
I had been so in tune with the marvellous untouched country
Nature
I was so overcome with embarrassment. The desocislising process had only gone so far
Challenge
Haunting, hallucinatory quality about this place
Challenge
I was filled with an emotion I had never felt before-joy
Transformation
I had discovered capabilities and strengths that I would not have imagined possible
Transformation
My body shook with uncontrollable spasms. I vomited
Challenge
I took off my clothes and danced
Transformation
I hissed and snarled and growled my teeth at them
Transformation
Shared a traumatic childhood
Family
The need to protect pop. The duty. To save him pain at any cost.
Family
” walk it all away for us “
Family
The time for me was excruciatingly sad
Family
The trip was easy
Realisation
You are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be
Realisation
Most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step
Realisation
The motivation behind my trip was intensely personal and private
Motivation
Accepting money from a magazine felt like a self-betrayal
Individualism
I wanted to shed burdens
Motivation
