[ned]

If Thoreau really wished to live a full life, why did he go to live by himself in a $29 shack by a pond? Why didn't he ever get married, have a steady job, or pay his poll tax?

I am currently investigating each of those questions. Along those same lines:

Have YOU ever gotten married?
Do YOU have a steady job?
Have YOU ever paid a poll tax?

The man was looney . . .

By the way, does YOUR shack have a pond?

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I am not a grown man and do not live in a shack.

Those Transcendentalists wrote some pretty scary poetry. For example, one of Walt Whitman's greatest poetic works was about how he stalked Abraham Lincoln's coffin all over America and then found comfort in smelling Lilacs, sort of like Ferdinand the Bull. It was one of the funniest poems I have ever read.

[FreedominJesusChrist]

I was not at all surprised when I found out that Whitman was gay.

[Amelia]

You think perhaps Thoreau was the ultimate college student?