When Bassett's life comes to a close he realizes what he is looking upon is a forgotten memory after his death. He realized that "like a peal from some bell of the gods reaching earthward from across space"(Jack London 982) this knowledge of his death approaching, despite his almost fully paralyzed body he "gazed upon the serene face of Medusa, Truth"(Jack London 297-303). This truth being the fact that he was going to die, and never again be able to peer at The Red One to wonder where it came from, who or what sent it, and why. After his body failed him he succumbed to death. His last account of life finished "Simultaneous with the bite of steel on the onrush of the dark, in a flashing instant of fancy, he saw the vision of his head turning slowly, always turning, in the devil-devil house beside the breadfruit tree" (Jack London 990) completes London's writing with the envied information harshly realized that without the prized object of existence or life, there is no information to be sought.

Bassett's careless curiosity bring

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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)