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Originally Posted by BirdDancer
I have an undergraduate degree (plus), too, but I read both "Walden" and "Civil Disobedience" in high school. That's kind of you to give a little summary regarding what motivated his essay "Civil Disobedience", but "Walden" has a little bit of a different emphasis. We sometimes take different things from different writings.
Perhaps I'm totally wrong about this, but would you prefer I not respond to your posts? I have been concerned about you and am trying to contribute in your threads, but fear irritation towards me. Do let me know. I'm fine if you'd rather me back away. I want you to feel comfortable here.
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Please, do not worry about my feelings. I am just bipolar ... your comments are not like acid being dumped onto my body to see if my skin burns.
The book "Walden" is a different type of 19th century American book, in fact, it stands alone with any canon from that time period. In fact, a cannon book being as close to "Walden" and interacts with people in our current society, is "Thus Spoke Zarathustra". One is a American the other is German, they never meet each other or interacted with each other. Still, if your supporting "Walden" your most likely supporting "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" too.
Now, when I am driving down the highway and I see someone driving a 20 year old red Volvo with dozens of bumper stickers plastered all over the place. I am thinking in the back of my head, do they have a copy of "Walden" inside their car.