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14061656 No.14061656 [Reply] [Original]

wtf i wanna live in the woods now

>> No.14061668

>>14061656
Why?

>> No.14061684

Someone should make an Innawoods chart

>> No.14061697
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>>14061684
this?

>> No.14062123

I love Thoreau but remember he was living a short distance away from one of the centers of American literary and intellectual life and could just walk to town and get his brain and stomach fed at any time. I don’t think he was a phony and he certainly lived a bare anti materialistic life but today’s equivalent might be living in a shack in the woods on the fringe of Silicon Valley or some university town.

>> No.14062155

>>14061656
Before you consider this, read Into the Wild.

>> No.14062263

This is comfycore. This and Robison Crusoe. In need to reread them.

>> No.14062295

>>14061656
If Thoreau loved living innawoods so much, why did he only do it for two years?

>> No.14062310

>>14062123
>In reality, Walden Pond in 1845 was scarcely more off the grid, relative to contemporaneous society, than Prospect Park is today. The commuter train to Boston ran along its southwest side; in summer the place swarmed with picnickers and swimmers, while in winter it was frequented by ice cutters and skaters. Thoreau could stroll from his cabin to his family home, in Concord, in twenty minutes, about as long as it takes to walk the fifteen blocks from Carnegie Hall to Grand Central Terminal. He made that walk several times a week, lured by his mother’s cookies or the chance to dine with friends.
>He also fails to mention weekly visits from his mother and sisters (who brought along more undocumented food) and downplays the fact that he routinely hosted other guests as well—sometimes as many as thirty at a time.

>> No.14062329

>>14062295
People keep coming by uninvited spoiling his experience. also he wanted to be closer to Emerson, so Emerson could pound his tight little unwashed neg hole on the reg

>> No.14062334

>>14062295
Typical lefty
>Just because I use iPhone doesn't mean I accept capitalism.

>> No.14062350
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>>14061697

Anyone got anymore recs?
any western takes?

>> No.14062375

>>14062329
Ignoring the second part, why wouldn't he just move to a more low profile area?

>>14062334
How is that related at all? I'm saying if he praised the minimal lifestyle so much, why did he quit it so soon? Wouldn't he want to continue living the same way if it was as enlightening as he made it sound?
Also
>typical lefty
Typical American believing everyone in the world falls into their retarded us vs. them two-party mentality.

>> No.14062424

>>14062155
What was his name again, McCandless? What do you mean? No one seriously think this guy is worth looking up to. He was stupid enough to go innawoods not being fucking prepared, without even a map. But yeah, you are right, it's worth knowing about his history not to fuck up like him and die like faggot.

>> No.14062450

I've heard Kant influenced Transcendentalism? Is that true? What works were the biggest influence?

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>>14061656
wtf i can write my diary now

>> No.14062534

>>14061697
>no muir
>no emerson
>no wordsworth
shameful

>> No.14062549

>>14061697
Haha, a chart that provides no practical knowledge for such a life, at least you will be able to philosophize about your place in the world as you watch your life wither.

>> No.14062558

>>14062424
>But yeah, you are right, it's worth knowing about his history not to fuck up like him and die like faggot.
That's what I meant.