Wednesday, November 26, 2008
with ice
...Thoreau's Journal: 26-Nov-1855
Bottom of boat covered with ice. The ice next the shore bore me and my boat.
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Uh, this is the best HDT quote you can come up with?
Please, he has tons of more profound things than this.
Get off the inoffensive nature pablum and start quoting his really meaty comments. This includes his unPC ones, too.
Let us see if you have the nerve
really be like Henry.
Anonymous (glad Henry used his real name), I believe you have commented several times along this complaint. Maybe you don't understand the nature of this blog. These are edits from his Journals for each particular day. So for all the entirs for 11/26, yes, I did like this one. As for his unPC comments, remember this is his journal, and like it or not, he was a naturalist first and foremost. His journals reflect this. So, although there may be the social comment here and there, most of the entries document his rambles. Feel free to create your own site populated with your favorite quotes. And do let me know the link if and when you do. I wish you luck in your endeavor.
Well, well – you DO read the comments after all.
Oh, I know it is safe to quote from Henry using only what he had written for a particular day. I also knew you would eventually bring up this plan of yours and tell me to go start my own blog of Henry quotes. The latter merely translates into “Go away and leave me with the English majors who fawn and swoon over Henry’s descriptions of flowers and tree bark.”
How safe, how dull, and how unHenry of you.
I am tired of enduring so many facets (fascists?) of society telling me how to think and act. And now this has even come down to my beloved Henry.
Will you allow dissenting comments here? Will you allow real dialogue on issues of importance? Or will I be told to simply go away and keep my mouth shut?
Totalitarian regimes don’t need armies to suppress the masses into blind obedience. They just need to have certain groups feed the people bland porridge and tell them it is steak until they believe it.
"I also knew you would eventually bring up this plan of yours and tell me to go start my own blog of Henry quotes." Then I guess you know how I'd answer this latest comment. So I need not say anything more. Thanks.
"Some day a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets." - Travis Bickle, Taxi Driver.
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