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History of Ideas: Thoreau
Past Present Future
Thoreau's Mantra for Being the Best Human Being
"Thoreau wasn't much fun and montane was so montane is funny," says David Walliams. Thoreau really values solitude for its own sake but also purify the body, he adds. "There's a bit of not just self-sacrifice but acute slightly unhinged self-denial going on here nothing like montane",walliams argues. The author believes that if we were to go back in time people would still be astonished at how strange our world has become.
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