Book: Call Of The Wild
09:25 PM: Began the book Call of the Wild from 1903, by Jack London, because I need a break from the Team of Rivals history book I’ve been studying for nearly two weeks now. So I thought I’d read something light and short, but that still qualifies as classic American literature. This book should fill the bill on all counts.
I owned a paperback version of this work back in the mid 1980s, that I’d purchased from the Pitt book store, full-well intending to read it then. In fact, spurred by the fantasy of becoming deeply knowledgeable regarding all classic American literature, I bought many books whose pages turned yellow at my Craig St. apartment, without me ever having glanced them. I’m reminded of how much of a procrastinator I was in my twenties. But I really did have valid reasons for not reading this back then. Due to the small print of that particular edition, and my other academic responsibilities in college at that time, I never found time to open it, except to view the many black and white dog pictures inside, which were really quite good.
However, now, finally, this book shall be read. 
March 14th, 2010 at 7:38 pm
10:35 PM: Read the introduction and chapter one; titled Into the Primitive, where the protagonist, Buck the dog was introduced, and then promptly dog-napped and sold into the dog trade. The story is told in third-person voice.
11:25 PM: Read chapter two; titled The Law of Club and Fang, where Buck must now fight to stay alive and ignore any moral aversions to doing so, lest he die.
March 15th, 2010 at 7:09 am
12:30 AM: Read chapter three; titled The Dominant, Primordial Beast.
10:00 AM: Read chapter four; titled Who Has Won To Mastership.
01:00 PM: Read chapter five; titled The Toil of Trace and Trail.
01:05 AM: Read chapter six; titled For the Love of a Man.
March 16th, 2010 at 10:08 am
01:05 PM: Read the seventh and final chapter of this book; titled The Sound of the Call, where the protagonist, Buck, ends generations of removal from dog roots, and re-enters the wild.