The Dharma Bums

“Up out of the orange glow of our fir you could see immense system of uncountable stars, either as individual blazers, or in low Venus droppers, or vast Milky Ways in commensurate with human understanding, all cold, blue, silver, but our food and our fire was pink and goodies” (73)

This line stood out to me because I like how Ray talks about the stars and what they really are, not saying the typically pretty stars in the sky. He brings in some mystery to it and put both the perspective that they were tiny compared to the universe but at the same time they were content because of there warm fire compared to the cold universe.

“‘The whole purpose of mountain climbing to me isn’t just to show off you can get to the top, it’s getting out to this wild country.’” (81)

Here Ray is talking about weather or not to climb another peak because heading back down. He is content with what he as already done and how far he as gone because he has gotten high enough to see the country. Even though he says this I don’t think he completely means it because he does have some competitive nature and does climb the last peak because Japhy is.