From its initial moments, all the way to the point where players leave the game's open world behind (though players can technically return to the open
world at rest stops through strange time travel mechanic or upon completing the main story), the kingdom available for exploring fails to leave much of an impression.
Not exact matches
like the pagan I worship a God who can be touched; and I do indeed touch him — this God — over the whole surface and in the depths of that
world of matter which confines me: but to take hold of him as I would wish (simply in order not to
stop touching him), I must go always on and on through and beyond each undertaking, unable to
rest in anything, borne onwards
at each moment by creatures and
at each moment going beyond them, in a continuing welcoming of them and a continuing detachment from them; like the quietist I allow myself with delight to be cradled in the divine fantasy: but
at the same time I know that the divine will, will only be revealed to me
at each moment if I exert myself to the utmost: I shall only touch God in the
world of matter, when, like Jacob, I have been vanquished by him.
To remind me to
stop looking inward, but instead outward,
at the
rest of the
world filled with people to love and serve.
This was before Mackey had won a single Iditarod, let alone four straight; before he used what he calls his marathon style — catnapping as his sled moves and covering 100 - mile chunks
at a moderate pace without prolonged
rest, instead of sprinting from
rest stop to
rest stop like most other racers — to win an unprecedented double (the Yukon Quest, the
world's other 1,000 - mile dogsled race, and just weeks later the Iditarod) not once but twice; before he became so dominant that slower competitors complained they had no chance to finish within five days of him (the requirement for an official place and a commemorative belt buckle); and before a rival pushed for drug testing
at the 2010 Iditarod, suspecting that Mackey's secret was his prescription for medical marijuana to alleviate the side effects of cancer treatment.
I actually got some real -
world experience with the system driving home late
at night over the weekend, when the system picked up on my drowsiness, alerted with visual and audio warnings, prompting me to seek out a
rest stop for a short nap.