Dec 13 2007
Crazy Thinker
I found Walden hard to keep focused on because of the way it was written. He talked too much about him self and drowned on and on about unimportant things that had no relevance to anything. Many of the sentences struck me though.
“… To front only the essential facts of life…”
I think that life would be much simpler and more enjoyable if we all could do just that. Which is why I think, he went out here and did what he did to confront nature but yet still be in touch with the world.
“… Let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand…”
I think he’s saying that you should keep your problems and concerns to a minimum and not let them control you life and enjoy the simple pleasures.
“…There is more day to dawn…”
I think it tells you that you should brake from the norm and wake before dawn because there is only a certain amount of sun in the day and you should us every bit.
I don’t reject Thoreau but don’t agree with what he did. He did what he thought he had to do to make him self a complete person, I don’t criticizes him for that. He may deserve the reputation he has but not to the extent of what he has, the still of writing was good back then but know most people wouldn’t sit down with his book and read, the quotes mean more today then the text.
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