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To: Borges
Thoreau always struck me as a grown adolescent with the common sense of a garden gnome.

Daniel Boone was naturalists that understood and appreciated nature. Thoreau was like a 10-year-old camping in the back yard, who discovers an earth worm and thinks they have just made a scientific discovery.

Only people as sheltered and naive as Thoreau find his epiphanies noteworthy.

3 posted on 05/06/2012 8:46:47 AM PDT by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: SampleMan

Have you read Walden? Thoreau had a great sense of humor about what he was doing and didn’t try to imbue it with any false grandeur. He was much smarter than all the people who have (mis)read him over the years.


6 posted on 05/06/2012 8:57:23 AM PDT by Borges
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To: SampleMan
Only people as sheltered and naive as Thoreau find his epiphanies noteworthy.

I was going to make a joke about the Walden Pond exercise being a step up from making a fort of his mother's kitchen table, but you really put truth to words.

7 posted on 05/06/2012 9:01:33 AM PDT by Brass Lamp
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