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from cnnsi.com — a special about prefontaine

To understand Pre you had to read Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey’s masterpiece, set in the coastal logging towns of Pre’s youth. This is Kesey’s paean to the inner worth of a man: “For there is always a sanctuary more, a door that can never be forced, whatever the force, a last inviolable stronghold that can never be taken, whatever the attack; your vote can be taken, your name, your innards, even your life, but that last stronghold can only be surrendered. And to surrender it for any reason other than love is to surrender love.”