Tracks Quotes: Themes Flashcards
(112 cards)
1
Q
Weaker sex
A
Gender
2
Q
My grip on reality was a little shaky
A
Challenge
3
Q
Essential for me to develop beyond the archetypal female creature
A
Gender
4
Q
Sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the mailise of my generation, my sex
A
Gender
5
Q
Something to be proved
A
Gender
6
Q
Awe inspiring beast
A
Animals
7
Q
Tiredness overwhelmed me
A
Challenge
8
Q
Life was good and bountiful
A
Enjoyment
9
Q
Seemed unfair to ask my family to donate money
A
Family
10
Q
Various pressures on me
A
Expectations
11
Q
Unspeakable hell
A
Challenges
12
Q
Heat would be so immense
A
Challenge
13
Q
Bend the mind a little
A
Challenge
14
Q
Rational, clever, articulate, intellectual, competent, dedicated, revolutionary, verbally aggressive men
A
Gender
15
Q
Why was everyone so goddam effected by this trip?
A
Individualism
16
Q
The trip was beginning to lose some of its simplicity
A
Challenge
17
Q
One of me had known
A
Challenge
18
Q
It seemed as if the trip belonged to everyone but me
A
Individualism
19
Q
Didn’t want the mental crutch (two way radio)… with the outside world
A
Individualism
20
Q
I could feel anxiety and excitement bulging the back of my eyeballs
A
Adventure
21
Q
All around me was magnificence
A
Nature
22
Q
Great weight lifted off my back
A
Expectations
23
Q
I love you. I love you sky, bird, wind, precipice, space, sun, desert
A
Nature
24
Q
The camera seemed omnipresent
A
Individualism
25
Make or break me
Challenge
26
Impossibly beautiful place
Nature
27
The last burning bridge back to my old self collapsed
Transformation
28
Feeling of release
Transformation
29
Breaking free of departmental rulings
Transformation
30
The country I was travelling through held my undivided attention
Nature
31
Desert is bountiful, teeming with life
Nature
32
I grew muscles on my shit
Transformation
33
Thick and gorgeous with billions of stars
Nature
34
My little heart felt like a macaw in a canary cage
Challenge
35
I could feel the enormity of the desert
Challenge
36
I felt very small and very alone
Challenge
37
Walking was beginning to take its toll
Challenge
38
I treated them like porcelain
Nature
39
I had been hot, irritable and tired
Challenge
40
Constant tension was sapping my energy and I sweated and strained
Challenge
41
The trip was not a game
Challenge
42
The desert was larger than I could comprehend
Challenge
43
Tourists were beginning to drive me crazy
Individualism
44
Assaulted by psychedelic dreams
Challenge
45
Fratility of human life
Challenge
46
Enjoying the lack of pressure
Expectations
47
I entered a new realm of exhaustion
Challenge
48
Nothing like a bit of danger to get the blood flowing again
Challenge
49
I melted into a feeling of belonging
Enjoyment
50
The journey had lost all its meaning
Challenge
51
My steps felt achingly slow, small and leaden
Challenge
52
I was scared deep in my bones
Challenge
53
My vision was distorted by fear
Challenge
54
Time was different here, it stretched
Enjoyment
55
Some string somewhere inside me was starting to unravel
Transformation
56
There was nothing but chaos and the voices
Challenges
57
You've gone too far this time. I've got you now, and I hate you
Challenge
58
I tried to conquer the presence with my own voice
Challenge
59
I had not eaten properly
Challenge
60
I was completely disorientated
Challenge
61
I still didn't know how mad I was
Challenge
62
The usual pancakes made with wholemeal, bug-infested flour, eggs and milk
Adventure
63
I was itching to get away, still caught in my western nets, trying to fight them and having little success
Transformation
64
Brutal afternoon sun which scorched my face
Challenge
65
I was being torn by two different time concepts
Challenge
66
Time melted- became meaningless
Challenge
67
I hated shooting these lovely animals
Nature
68
I could eat anything and did. I was putrid
Transformation
69
I had lost my stud, so put through a large safety pin
Transformation
70
Bloody swine! I was boiling with anger
Individualism
71
Desocialising process- the sloughing off like a snake skin
Transformation
72
Useless preoccupations and and standards of the society I had left
Rejection of society
73
Almost forgotten patterns of interaction with my own kind
Transformation
74
I had become so dependent on that rifle
Survival
75
New found confidence
Transformation
76
I could not remember ever associating (happiness) with myself
Transformation
77
Simply tedious and tiring
Challenge
78
It was a giant cleansing of all the garbage and muck that had accumulated in my brain
Transformation
79
I was happy
Transformation
80
Solid reliance on myself
Transformation
81
By this stage I was so fit, I was virtually immune to cold and pain
Transformation
82
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
83
The self in the desert becomes... more like the desert
Transformation
84
I talked constantly to myself
Individualism
85
I learnt to shiver myself warm
Transformation
86
Relief to be free of disguises and prettiness and attractiveness
Rejecting society
87
I must not fall into that trap again
Rejection society
88
My wits got me through where the gun didn't
Transformation
89
Diggity was more than a dog
Companionship
90
Why dogs chose humans in the first place I will never understand
Hatred of mankind
91
I was utterly deprogrammed
Transformation
92
I could not remember, or put into context, etiquette
Transformation
93
Would anybody notice or care?
Transformation
94
I could blart with the best of them
Transformation
95
I had been so in tune with the marvellous untouched country
Nature
96
I was so overcome with embarrassment. The desocislising process had only gone so far
Challenge
97
Haunting, hallucinatory quality about this place
Challenge
98
I was filled with an emotion I had never felt before-joy
Transformation
99
I had discovered capabilities and strengths that I would not have imagined possible
Transformation
100
My body shook with uncontrollable spasms. I vomited
Challenge
101
I took off my clothes and danced
Transformation
102
I hissed and snarled and growled my teeth at them
Transformation
103
Shared a traumatic childhood
Family
104
The need to protect pop. The duty. To save him pain at any cost.
Family
105
" walk it all away for us "
Family
106
The time for me was excruciatingly sad
Family
107
The trip was easy
Realisation
108
You are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be
Realisation
109
Most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step
Realisation
110
The motivation behind my trip was intensely personal and private
Motivation
111
Accepting money from a magazine felt like a self-betrayal
Individualism
112
I wanted to shed burdens
Motivation
