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People like this should off themselves. Thoreau never faced a day of hardship in his life.

>> No.16239101

>>16238787
T. Cityslicker

>> No.16239108

>>16238787
Seethe in your tiny shared apartment poorfag

>> No.16239153

>>16239101
>>16239108
Faggots like you are all bark and no bite. Face it, you have never faced a hard days work

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>>16239153
Feels good man chillen like a villain while you work minim wage to pay for your shared apartment while I sit back drink fantasia extra dry.

>> No.16239219

>>16239180
send pic of your farm

>> No.16239242

>>16238787
>Never faced a day of hardship in his life
His brother died when they were both young

>> No.16239255

>>16239153
We don't get anywhere if we force doctors to dig dams

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16239273

is uncle ted the most congruent thinker?
he did exactly as he preached

>> No.16239280

>>16238787
Imagine actually thinking Thoreau was trying to be some kind of survivalist

>> No.16239319

>>16238787
This book worth reading? What is it about?

>> No.16239344

>>16239319
>he hasn't read Walden yet
Drop whatever you're doing right now and pick it up. People like to meme about him from time to time, but Walden is a fantastic book. It's about a guy living out on a lake for a while, as well as death and rebirth and a bunch of stuff having to do with the transcendentalist movement that his buddy Emerson was a big part of. It has a bunch of gorgeous passages and clever wordplay

>> No.16239345

>>16239319
>This book worth reading?
Since you possibly asked this unironically, I don't think the book is for you and you probably couldn't get through it.

>> No.16239353

>>16238787
>they will hate you for being comfy
Sad!

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>>16239273
Diogenes is another

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>>16239344
Thanks I'll check it out.

>>16239345
Fuck you, I am going to read it and post a critical review proving it's garbage. Make sure you pick up your next /lit/ monthly.

>> No.16239438

>>16239372
how tf u gonna critically review a dude jsut livin in the woods he only doin it to escape u arguin niggas discussing bullshit while the opportunities you have to live your life rot in the absence of courage.

>> No.16239520

>>16239438
Because I plan on living the in the woods too.

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>>16239520
Hello, based department?

>> No.16239613

>>16239438
absolutely based

>> No.16239800

He refused to pay taxes out of moral opposition to the Mexican-American war, and went to prison for it.

Emerson bailed him out, but still.

>> No.16239808

people who are pussies idealize the pussies of history who went to the ends of the earth to cope, they want to live similarly worthless lives

>> No.16239824

>>16239108
ironically more in line with thoreau's cabin than your plywood mcmansion

>> No.16239837

>>16239319
it's about life and why we do what we do. as thoreau explicitly states in the first essay he's in the woods to learn about living in town.

>> No.16240277

>>16239273
No Plato is much more so.

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>>16239438
Absolutely based

>> No.16240759

I hope you niggas realize that he lived 5 minutes away from his moms house and she gave him chicken tendies on daily basis

>> No.16240776

>>16238787
cringe i can't wait to crush urbanite scum like yourself

>> No.16240795

>>16240776
Let’s fight, faggot.

>> No.16241217

No one claimed he did. Fuck of back to your English lit class.

>> No.16241274

>>16240759
what are you on about?
He literally elected to live without electricity, running water AND internet. That is practically living in the wild even if you are still a stone toss away from other people.

>> No.16241503

>>16239800
Don't forget he hated slavery, and didn't want his tax money going towards a state that supported it in any way.
>>16241274
How can any individual's life be worth more than anothers? What determines worth?

>> No.16241645

i heard thoreau had his mother do his laundry every weekend while he was living on lake walden

>> No.16241669

>>16239273
Did he make those clothes himself?

>> No.16241727

>>16238787
I agree. His writings come off entirely like some 14 year olds edgy tweets. It's actually staggering. Not at all on the level of the profound intellects he consistently compares himself to. His essay "walking" is good though.

>> No.16241734

he's a great stylist. terrible thinker. emerson as well, but a lesser stylist and slightly better thinker for aping hindu ideas.

>> No.16241743

>>16239319
It's about someone saying "I lived in the woods and was happy! In fact happier than others! I'm so sure of it! I am enlightened and right!".

It's not analytical, it's prose is trash, objectivity is thrown aside. It's just someone who wrote down a bunch of edgy thoughts whenever he got them and then tried to string them all together.

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>>16241743
Sounds like you've never lived in the woods.

>> No.16241974

>>16240759
Defintely /ourguy/ than

>> No.16242034

>>16238787
Rich bad poor good

>> No.16242095

>hating a book/author because of the image that people who never read the book created about it

You guys are worse than the /r/books retards

>> No.16242364

dumb hardship glorifier

>> No.16242410
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>>16239319
Yes it's worth reading. It's like those smug NEET Pepe's ruminating about life and wagecucking in beautiful prose. My favorite book of all time hands down

>> No.16242418

>>16239319
It's only worth reading if you obsess over Anglo and Greek classics

>> No.16242424

>>16238787
I was just thinking today that Thoreau is pretty backwards. Specifically I wondered why would someone give up refined table salt because it costs money? Basically, he struck me as a anti-modernist.

>> No.16242431

>>16241743
>its not analytical
that's a good thing

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>>16242410
>smug NEET Pepe's ruminating about life and wagecucking in beautiful prose
Just the description I needed! I am definitely reading it now.