All 5 Uses of
ecstasy
in
The Call of the Wild
- There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise.†
Chpt 3 *
- And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.†
Chpt 3
- This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad on a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.†
Chpt 3
- Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.†
Chpt 6
- Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and pour forth generously over the world.†
Chpt 7
Definition:
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(ecstasy as in: a state of ecstasy) a state of intense happiness