/lit/ - Literature

Stand up for what you believe, the book.

>>13142545

>LARPs in a garden for a few seasons
>Spends the whole time telling his neighbors why he's better than them
What are some actually good /out/ books?

This phenomenon is more exhilarating to me than the luxuriance and fertility of vineyards. True, it is somewhat excrementitious in its character, and there is no end to the heaps of liver lights and bowels, as if the globe were turned wrong side outward; but this suggests at least that Nature has some bowels, and there again is mother of humanity. This is the frost coming out of the ground; this is Spring. It precedes the green and flowery spring, as mythology precedes regular poetry. I know of nothing more purgative of winter fumes and indigestions. 9b It convinces me that Earth is still in her swaddling clothes, and stretches forth baby fingers on every side. Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. These foliaceous heaps lie along the bank like the slag of a furnace, showing that Nature is "in full blast" within. The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit, — not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves. You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into. And not only it, but the institutions upon it, are plastic like clay in the hands of the potter.

Whats the consensus on this book? I read through the Economy chapter and it's boring. He's a bit high on himself too. Sorry i dont want to sell everything i own and live off of 50 cents worth of rice in a house i built myself. You think you're fuckin better than me because of the choices i've made?

Go live in the woods you pleb

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>>7850695

What does /lit/ think of Walden?