Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 23:29:35 -0500
From: George Trail <gtrail-AT-UH.EDU>
Subject: Re: PLC: Thoreau


>> You know, Hank Thoreau had some interesting ideas about anarchy, the first
>> of which was that it has had a bad press, and the second of which was that
>> its "forms" were infinite. What he knew better than was that anything was
>> formless.
>> He called, some of y'all might remember, not for no government
>> _immediately_, but immediatly for better government. This has led some
>> folks who don't pay attention when they read (whose number is legion) to
>> presume that he was not an anarchist and to find him pious about "nature"
>> or some other abstract distraction.
>>
>
>
>George, was Thoreau a toad too?
>
>all best humour intended

If Vlad Knobohcoff had paid attention when he read Henry David it would
never have occurred to him to claim that he was an American writer. HDT
ranks right up there with Herman and that Clemens boy.

Cheers,
g




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