Oh, that's really interesting. Yeah, I can see them being similar in a kind of "freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose" sense. It's a kind of absolute asceticism and detachment. We don't see what influences Mona, but McCandless's trip to Alaska is very reminiscent of Tolstoy's final pilgrimage.
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Date: 2018-09-01 08:30 pm (UTC)