From cosmopoetica.com
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“I was never so rapid in my virtue but that my vice kept up with me. We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.”
–Henry David Thoreau
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Please take the time to savor this classic from Henry David Thoreau, the author of Walden - written for a different cause, but equally applicable to today's more pernicious form of slavery:Civil Disobedienceby Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862)I heartily accept the motto, "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I...
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From blogger.com
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Here's our latest review, by Geoff Wisner. It covers Damion Searls' edited-down (from roughly 2 million words) version of Thoreau's journal , available next week from NYRB Classics. Here's a taste: Damion Searls’ new edition is meant to showcase the Journal as a unified work of literature. More than any previous version, it allows a direct encounter with this great work and approximates the experience of reading the whole. In fact, by clearing...
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From conversationalreading.com
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We have never needed Henry David Thoreau more than we need him now. But the Thoreau we think we know is not really the one who lived and worked in the community of Concord. That Thoreau is an icon, frozen atop a pedestal. He is, says Robert Sullivan in his engaging new book The Thoreau You Don't...
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From hartfordadvocate.com
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Henry David Thoreau was a unique human being. He was as complex as an individual could be. He had strengths, weaknesses, and flaws. He also lived a simple life; one that doesn’t fit into the kind of lifestyle our culture expects or approves. Still, he stands tall and his literary importance is underscored by our still wanting to read what he wrote 150 or more years after his life ended. It is unfair to say, as some have, that Thoreau did not...
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From open.salon.com
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