Luis’s Reviews > Walden or, Life in the Woods > Status Update

Completed a two more chapters. Stopping to read Iliad a bit was a good idea. Seems much of Thoreau's logic is firmly based on the stories of the past. Hopefully, I'll be able to finish Iliad one day.

Lol, who compares a mountain of weeds to a mountain of dead soldiers, drawing connections to Troy's Prince Hektor? Well, it motivated me to finally read the Iliad, so well played, Thoreau.

Deciding to investigate cultural references a bit more thoroughly as opposed to only reading a wikipedia entry. Reading Ben Jonson's Volpone due to this so progress has slowed. Worth it.

This chapter makes me wish I had learned Latin or Greek. Maybe it's never too late?