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thoreau and FIRE?

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 9:16 am
by wanderer
misleading title. the happiness thread got me thinking and i ran across this at m*. I thought it was interesting:

http://socialize.morningstar.com/NewSoc ... nvId=92165

Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2003 10:25 am
by ataloss
One of the posters there said Thoreau was a "big phoney." I think his books stand on their own. Is it true that his place on the pond was a couple of miles from home and that he went there daily for lunch with his mother?