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9493062 No.9493062 [Reply] [Original]

What do you think of Thoreau? It changed my views on what poverty is and how luxuries of life end up becoming shackles. He is sometimes too digressive though and the diatribes appear incomprehensible

>> No.9493576

Reading Walden now, I think its great and I tend to agree with almost everything he says. Really makes me want to fuck off and live in the woods but I'm too much of a pussy to go for it.

>> No.9493579

>>9493062
Try not paying your taxes now and see where it gets you

>> No.9493582

it's great - emerson is worth checking out too if you guys like walden. less of a philosopher, but i think a better writer

>>9493062
>>9493576

>> No.9493591

>>9493579
pleb who didn't understand Thoreau's argument

>> No.9493594

>>9493062
I dont enjoy this book prose wise, but I admire the spirit and effort it took for this man to carry out and enjoy his experiment.

>> No.9493608

>>9493591
I made a snippy remark. Don't discipline me.

>> No.9493616

>>9493576
>Really makes me want to fuck off and live in the woods but I'm too much of a pussy to go for it.
If you have your mommy bringing you food and supplies it's easy. Especially if you're just on the edge of town.

>> No.9493625

>>9493576
>your desire to post on 4chin is one of the things preventing you from doing this

>> No.9493747

>>9493062
>It changed my views on what poverty is and how luxuries of life end up becoming shackles

Are you 12

>> No.9493768

>>9493747
confirmed luxury cuck
>>9493616
>realizing thoreau was just a proto-neet

>> No.9493783

Excellent book for inspiring an interest in literature for adolescents. I re-read it recently and it was still good, not as profound as when I was 17 though.

I hate those people that dismiss the entire book because he wasn't actually "on his own in the wild", that he lived near town and frequently stayed at Emersons. None of that takes away from what he says in the book.