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YAWN

>> No.9506993

I seriously doubt anyone here would disagree with you

>> No.9507013

I wish he had lied and said he was farther away from civilization.

>> No.9507065

>>9506980
nobody's perfect

>> No.9507071

Tried reading this borefest twice and could never get into it. It seems to me Thoreau was a bit of a hack who just happened to be friends with Emerson.

>> No.9507088

>>9506993
I would be willing to have a drunken barfight with anyone who genuinely thinks that Walden is a bad book. It's a masterpiece in every sense of the word, and if you can't see that you're irredeemable.

>> No.9508179

yawn on this dick... nigga

>> No.9508203

christopher knight (the dude who lived in isolation for 27 years in maine) on walden:

>Thoreau lived in his cabin on Walden Pond in Massachusetts for two years and two months, starting in 1845. He escaped the world, reducing existence to its basic elements, to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life,” he wrote in Walden.
>“I love to be alone,” Thoreau added. “I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.” This seems to precisely mirror Knight’s sentiments. And yet Knight despised Thoreau.
>“Thoreau,” said Knight, “was a dilettante.” The great Transcendentalist was also, according to Knight, a fraud. During his retreat, Thoreau socialized frequently in the town of Concord. His mother did his laundry. One dinner party at his place numbered 20 guests.
>Thoreau’s biggest sin may have been publishing Walden—packaging his thoughts into a commodity, brazenly seeking fame and fortune. Knight’s disdain was bottomless. “Thoreau had no deep insight into nature,” said Knight.
>Score: an absolute 0.

he gave notes from underground a 10 btw

>> No.9508213

>>9508203
shut up chris

>> No.9508780

>>9506980
tried to read this when i was in prison. it was almost impossible. i ended up trading it (along with a packet of ramen) for a copy of dan browns inferno. which was actually a better read.

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9508823

>>9508203
>christopher knight
I loved him in the Brady Bunch.