I have experienced this kind of curiosity before, as a fundamental reaction toward certain strange circumstances. When my life was once endangered by a climbing accident, I felt only one sensation at the critical moment: curiosity, curiosity as to whether I should come out of it alive or with a fractured skull or some other injuries.

— Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, 1946, Beacon Press (2006 edition), p. 27