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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.

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“There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.”

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London’s narrator describes Buck’s intense absorption in movement and instinct as a peak state of aliveness within the novel’s imaginative account of the animal’s experience.

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The Call of the Wild, Project Gutenberg #215. The sentence introduces a passage about Buck leading the pack and is literary narration that also compares artistic and martial absorption; it is not a scientific definition of peak experience.

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