…on the absurdity of fashions: “We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches . . . The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
At twenty-six, Thoreau accidentally set three hundred acres of forest on fire, a mishap that the townspeople of Concord never forgot—and never let Thoreau forget.
🤣🤣🤣
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What if Ralph doesn’t have pie, though?
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Ralph always had pie. He apparently ate it for breakfast.
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Ralph’s wife or daughter had 🥧. Ralph benefited.
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perhaps
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What kind of pie?
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Can’t say for sure, but apple was the most popular back then.
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I like that!
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I would have stayed in the cabin (but it has to have heating, power and internet). I prefer to stay away from the world.
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And thats’s why he went home.
Stayed in the cabin, check.
T’other stuff, nope.
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I read Walden. How did he expect to understand humans by staring at water? 🤣😎🙃
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Good question…
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Hank was pondering…
…on the absurdity of fashions: “We know but few men, a great many coats and breeches . . . The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.”
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I’m sure Thoreau meant no disrespect to monkeys…
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At twenty-six, Thoreau accidentally set three hundred acres of forest on fire, a mishap that the townspeople of Concord never forgot—and never let Thoreau forget.
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2 years of sitting on a tree trunk can give you hemorrhoids. Henry probably went home to get his hemorrhoid cream.
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Beautiful!
Thoughts from the pond…”Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.”
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Sublime.
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An insightful and thoughtful strip with truthiness in pie…
But pond-ering – on Walden pond – how could you not like that?!
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Human condition did change .
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