Posts tagged Thoreau
The Denim Army
Thoughts of a Pierat
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…Thus far in the Maine wilderness on its way to the Provinces, we noticed a flaming Oak Hall handbill, about two feet long, wrapped around the trunk of a pine… This should be recorded among the advantages of this mode of advertising, that so, possibly, even the bears and wolves, moose, deer, otter, and beaver, not to mention the Indian, may learn where they can fit themselves according to the latest fashion, or, at least, recover some of their own lost garments.
”I suspect, that if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going further, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!”
-Henry David Thoreau
Introspection.
So, I’m working on a some interconnected short stories that I’m either writing or outlining to write soon. The most frightening part about writing stories is that you have to spend a lot of time in the place that stories come from: your brain. And let me tell you, my friend, that is a scary place.
I’m not sure if I could do the Thoreau thing, the transcendentalist thing (you know?). Being secluded and tearing yourself open to see how it all works would probably be too much for most people. I’m going to stick with writing some fictions, which are mostly based on my own experiences. So, really they’re allegories.
