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This exploration of how the analyst works uses a 15-year-old boy's description of an adventure in the outdoors as the starting point for a sequence of associations which led first to a passage from a Wordsworth poem and then to memories from the analyst's own childhood. The related themes of rite of passage and adolescent mourning are elaborated.