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Pink Floyd and Thoreau

December 12th, 2008 at 10:34 pm » Comments (0)

I was just listening to the Pink Floyd song "Time" the other day, when three lines of the song struck me: You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand ...more »

Good, Evil, and Plutarch

November 11th, 2008 at 12:03 am » Comments (0)

Henry David Thoreau, an obscure 19th Century classicist and journalist who earned a reputation as a decent translator of Greek works, once reflected on the profound presence of Evil in ...more »

Henry Thoreau’s Moral Universe

July 17th, 2008 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

I've been a wilderness lover since the summer my brother David and I first rode our bicycles into the Sierra Nevada, but I never did think much of Henry David ...more »

I Wanna Be Autonomy

May 8th, 2008 at 1:52 pm » Comments (1)

Awe, come on! A little anarchy never hurt nobody! Be a devil! Give it a try, won't you? Just this once. Anarchy in the NZ This here is your real scarlet letter. ...more »