"Society is commonly too
cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new
value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a
new taste of that old musty cheese that we are. We have had to agree on a
certain set of rules, called etiquette and politeness, to make this frequent
meeting tolerable and that we need not come to open war. We meet at the
post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night; we live
thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think
that we thus lose some respect for one another. Certainly less frequency would
suffice for all important and hearty communications..."
Reading Thoreau feels like blessing in the last few
days...someone understands me.
No that I haven't been enjoying the company of my closest lately,
I have... I only think that the only person with the required and sufficient insight is me, myself...
Also, I read Potter and Heath concurrently and its seems to
me like they criticize this individualistic romanticism of Thoreau way too
strongly...
Will see, who is going to win the battle at the end of the week@
Anyway, I am opting for a solutide for a couple of days...
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