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aikoaiko

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Mon Jun-19-06 02:58 PM
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2. My vote is for Thoreau

In one of my graduate classes, the prof told us that Thoreau would return home from Walden on the weekends to have his wife do his laundry, get supplies, and get pampered so that he could return to his manly isolation for the rest of the week.

"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind." meh.

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