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Anyone a fan...?
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Yep!
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Yeah but it's been a while since I've had any time to read either.
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ok sweet...so which one do ya'll like better?
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Edited by
Runpenzo
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Mon 01/21/08 04:59 PM
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So what your favorite piece? I like Walden and Self reliance
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hmmm prolly self reliance...i really wasnt a fan of walden, contradictory to the fame it received
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hmmm well who do u like better?
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Edited by
soxfan94
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Mon 01/21/08 05:00 PM
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I prefer Emerson to Thoreau, particularly "Nature"
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hmmm prolly self reliance...i really wasnt a fan of walden, contradictory to the fame it received Really? I thought the attention attracted just proved the point. |
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walking? hmm never heard that one, but yeah i do too
i guess i give thoreau more cred because he actually went out and did the stuff he said he was gonna do, but as for emerson he just writes it better despite the fact that emerson wrote "nature," that seemed to be all thoreau could write about |
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idk self reliance just really did it for me i guess, and nature too...but with walden i was like "is this ever gonna end?" i didnt need to read a million pages on thoreau watching ants
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Emerson may have worte nature but Thoreau lived it, his was more of a personal account.
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see but thoreau just kinda went on and on about nature and describing it...emerson really got into the philisophical part of it
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"Walking" was Thoreau...I had to edit it after I misstated the one I was thinking of from Emerson
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ah i see...so are u into the whole transendentalism view?
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And I agree that I enjoy Emerson more because of his philosophy that he threw in more often than Thoreau. Just a matter of personal opinion I suppose.
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ah i see...so are u into the whole transendentalism view? I enjoy learning about it and I find the accounts particularly nice to read, but I'm not so sure I'd say that I believe it myself. |
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yeah i totally agree, and emerson had a lot of responsibilities holding him down that thoreau didnt
if it werent for emerson staying in society he wouldnt have gotten his work published |
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see but thoreau just kinda went on and on about nature and describing it...emerson really got into the philisophical part of it but the purity of nature showed him everything in this world he came to hate, being in the middle of it all blinded him and when he removed himself he finnaly found what really mattered. |
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mmm, to me it really makes sense
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