J.T. Wilson’s Reviews > Walden or, Life in the Woods > Status Update

“The wildest scenes had become unaccountably familiar. I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both.”

(Unfortunately these words precede a puritanical sermon on abstinence)

“However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you.”

“I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; not did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life”

(Also pleased to look it up and confirm that yes, you can get a liberal education under the skies of Concord)

Move over Tumblr! Here we have the original queer autistic anarchist.

This kept cropping up in reading, and appeared in ‘The New York Trilogy’ so time to find out what the big deal is.