/lit/ - Literature

>>22437914

>>22437914
waldeez

>>22437914
He lived like two or three miles away from civilization, and would bring his dirty laundry to his mom's house for cleaning on a weekly basis, and she'd give him some snacks and sundries for him to bring back all the two or three miles into the great untamed wilderness.
Into the wild indeed.
Unironically makes me like him even better, he's hilarious and I don't mean that in a cruel or mocking way

>>22438008
>8008
Great digits.
Yeah this is based. The OG NEET.

>>22437914
Cape Cod is a good boring book. Maybe he has a tendency to exaggerate these things, but he makes the coastline seem desolate, interesting, and adventuresome.

>>22437914
>>22438008
Can't believe people are still so retarded as to misinterpret a very clear book. Walden is not about "living in nature" it's about living deliberately. It's about tuning out the distractions to find out what you really want to do in life. It is not a survivalist or anprim manifesto.

>>22438190
There is definitely a thread of self-reliance in the work that comes out rather lulzy in light of him bringing his laundry to his mom.

>>22437914
walden is suttree if suttree didnt ree and leaved of grass alone, based neckbeard who stumbled upon his being and began doing and reading his doings as as valid and validating as a strictly misanthropic dying

>>22438223
Do you agree that The Crossing is McCarthy's best work?

>>22437914
A Sand County Almanac is better and more concise.

>>22438288
Lol. You're not ready for greatness.

>>22438205
It's self-reliance in the sense of choosing what you want to do 100% for yourself and not for others.

>>22438190
Fucking thank you. Ridiculous how many people still don't understand this

>>22438288
This is a very lame take

>>22438650
>>22438676
Fucking idiots

>>22437914
Didn't his mammy go up to his cabin every day to feed him dinner