The world was simple- stars in the darkness. Whether it was 1947 B.C. or A.D. suddenly became of no significance. We lived, and that we felt with alert intensity. We realized that life had been full for men before the technical age also- in fact, fuller and richer in many ways than the life of modern man. Time and evolution somehow ceased to exist; all that was real and that mattered were the same today as they had always been and would always be. We were swallowed up in the absolute common measure of history- endless unbroken darkness under a swarm of stars.
-Thor Heyerdahl, halfway through the voyage from Peru to Polynesia on a balsa wood raft/ Kon Tiki
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