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Old 01-20-2010, 11:19 AM   #652
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The following anecdote is from Steve Allen's Private Joke File by Steve Allen:

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According to Sports Illustrated, a journalist visiting the Oak-land Raiders' training camp in Santa Rosa, California, had just come from the nearby Jack London Home State Historic Monument. He read the following sample of London's prose to quarterback Ken Stabler:

"'I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry rot.

"'I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.'"

"What does that mean to you?" the newspaperman asked.

"Throw deep," said Stabler.
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