Re[3]: [at-l] Walden (was Bryson's Book)

[rafe.bustin@verizon.net (Raphael Bustin)]

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At 01:40 PM 9/17/2002 -0400, Weary wrote:

>"...Thoreau did write a marvelous book in Walden, but most of his other
>writings
>are insufferable," thinks Grey Owl.


Apparently Robert Louis Stevenson was more inclined to agree with
Grey Owl.  (ref: <http://essayists.8m.com/thoreau.html>)

A brief snippet from Stevenson's esssay on Thoreau:

  "With his almost acid sharpness of insight, with his almost animal
  dexterity in act, there went none of that large, unconscious geniality
  of the world's heroes. He was not easy, not ample, not urbane, not
  even kind; his enjoyment was hardly smiling, or the smile was not
  broad enough to be convincing; he had no waste lands nor kitchen-
  midden in his nature, but was all improved and sharpened to a point
  ...So many negative superiorities begin to smack a little of the prig"


rafe b.
aka terrapin
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